Lady Elizabeth sighed contentedly, as if he had removed the last doubt from a happy mind.
"That's quite true," she said. Then she looked round the room. "Is he in your bath-room, or in bed, or where? You oughtn't to leave him alone."
"He's left me," replied George. "Wouldn't stay a moment after he knew Miss Caldegard was in your clutches. He's gone off with his intoxicated captive. He's made a conquest of Charles by pitching him out of the house, and the taxi-man would help him do murders."
"Is he coming back to bed here?"
"Didn't ask."
"Oh, George, why not?"
"He'll come if he wants to."
"Didn't he tell you where he was taking his prisoner?"
"Only said, 'Must get a move on. Got a man to be hanged,' and went."
"Then it's Scotland Yard," said Lady Elizabeth.