"On what particular point did you desire information, sir?"
"Tell me about the wedding. I wasn't able to be present. I had most important business in New York, Ferris. So I wasn't able to be present. Because I had most important business in New York."
"Indeed, sir?"
"Most important business. Impossible to neglect it. Did the wedding go off all right?"
"Not altogether, sir."
"What do you mean?"
"There has been no wedding, sir."
Mr. Waddington sat up. The butler appeared to be babbling. And the one moment when a man does not want to mix with babbling butlers is immediately after he has returned home from a search through New York for a policeman named Mulcahy or Garrity.
"No wedding?"
"No, sir."