She wanted to know what that mattered when she had got out of the train? I suggested that the people who saw Charlie get in hadn't seen her get out, and that she must look at the thing as it appeared to other people.
"Look," I said, "at the facts. Mrs. Jevons walks to Selham Station for the London train. Captain Thesiger joins her there, presumably by pre-arrangement, leaving by Midhurst station so that they may not be seen going away together. She is, however, seen entering his compartment at Selham. At Fittleworth she is seized with prudence and with panic. She is seen getting out on to the platform. And she is seen two hours later following the Captain up to London by the next train."
She seemed to be considering it.
"How many people," she said, "know that Charlie was in that train? People that matter—I don't mean you and Norah."
"Your butler, your parlourmaid, your housemaid, your cook, your gardener—by this time—and Baby's nurse—"
("And Baby," she interrupted.)
"—The guard of the train, the booking clerks and porters at Midhurst and Selham, and the station-masters at Midhurst and Selham and Petworth (probably) and Fittleworth. Quite a number of important people, to say nothing of Kendal, who is perhaps the most important of them all."
"And who was it who brought Kendal into it?"
I was silent.
"Nobody but you, Furny, or a born fool, would have dreamed of bringing
Kendal in."