“‘Have you anything to say?’ the magistrate asked of Sir Richard Tester.
“‘No, your Worship. I can only think that some accident has happened to my client.’
“‘We understand the warrant has been signed and is in the hands of the police.’”
“They will have to go a long way to execute it,” Lady Mildred remarked with a smile.
“You do not seem very distressed,” Lady Ethel answered drily.
Her answer was a laugh, and they alighted from the car to be met by Lord Lynton, who was just coming out of the house.
“I see you have heard the news,” he remarked with a glance at the paper which she still held in her hand. “I suppose the next we shall hear will be of his arrest.”
“I don’t think so,” Lady Mildred answered. “Come into the house, Geoffrey. I want to talk to you.”
Lord Lynton followed to her room, and it was evident that he was very curious.
“You have not the air of a wife who has just heard that the police are after her husband,” he remarked drily.