Fanny's mobile features expressed disappointment and annoyance.
"Then what's the use of talking about it? I'm not a safe-smasher. I'm a delicately nurtured girl that never used an oxy-acetylene blowpipe in her life."
"Ah, but you don't understand," said Mr. Waddington hastily. "When I say that the necklace is in the strong-room, I mean that it is there just now. Eventually it will be taken out and placed among the other wedding-presents."
"This begins to look more like it."
"I can mention no names, of course...."
"I don't expect you to."
"Then I will simply say that A, to whom the necklace belongs, is shortly about to be married to B."
"I might have known it. Doing all those bridge problems together, they kind of got fond of one another."
"I have my reasons for thinking that the wedding will take place down at Hempstead on Long Island, where C, A's stepmother, has her summer home."
"Why? Why not in New York?"