"I should have known," he said.
"You say Lady Leconbridge was not agitated by her loss?"
"I said she was curiously calm," he answered. "She was hiding her true feelings, perhaps. At the moment the actress may have predominated. You know, of course, that Lady Leconbridge was an actress before her marriage?"
"Helen Farrow—yes. Wasn't there some gossip about her at the time of her marriage?"
"There was."
"No truth in it, I suppose?"
He shrugged his shoulders.
"Evidently you think there was."
"So much smoke must have had some fire behind it, I am afraid," said the banker. "You have hinted at the delicacy of this affair, so you must ask me no more questions in that direction."
"Her past could hardly have any bearing on the loss of the diamonds," I said.