Three days passed. No answer to their wires and no manuscript.
"He's left Okehampton, I suppose," said Brodrick.
"Or has he left Wilbury?"
"We'll send another wire there, to make sure."
She wrote out the form obediently. Then she spoke again.
"Of course he's at Okehampton." Her voice had an accent of joyous certainty.
"Why 'of course'?"
"Because he went to Wilbury first. Mrs. Tanqueray said she sent our message there—the one we sent three days ago. So he's left Wilbury and he's staying in Okehampton."
"It looks like it."
"And yet—you'd have thought he'd have let his wife know if he was staying."