you, ma’am. I used to live there years ago, and I might find some of my old cronies.”
“For that very reason you must not go,” she said, hastily. “They would be asking you all sorts of questions, and you’d be letting out something.”
“They wouldn’t get nothing out of me.”
“If you made no answer it would be as bad. They would suspect you.”
“And you, too.”
“Precisely.”
“It’s rather hard, Mrs. Middleton, I can’t see my old friends.”
“You can make new ones. A man with money can always find friends.”
“That’s true, ma’am,” said Rudolph, brightening up. “Then you recommend me to stay in London.”
“In London or anywhere else that you like better. Only don’t come within twenty miles of Middleton Hall.”