"But if I can prove I've already restored your jewels——?"
"But you have not."
"If madame will do me the favour to open her safe, she will find them there—conspicuously placed."
"What nonsense——!"
"Am I wrong in assuming that madame didn't return from England until quite recently?"
"But today, in fact——"
"And you haven't troubled to investigate your safe since returning?"
"It had not occurred to me——"
"Then why not test my statement before denying it?"
With an incredulous shrug Madame Omber terminated a puzzled scrutiny of
Lanyard's countenance, and turned to the safe.