"You say home? Had she any house in London?"
"No, she'd never owned a house since the Abbey Road. She was in lodgings near Cheyne Walk before she went to Nice."
"Decent lodgings?"
"Oh yes, topping."
"And she didn't show up at the boat-train?"
"He didn't travel by the boat-train. He went the night before—by the Bournemouth express."
"The four-fifty-five?"
"Yes."
"Was he going to stay in Southampton that night?"
"I suppose so. He didn't tell me what was up. He seemed a bit excited and put out, and hadn't a word to throw at a dog."