"In presence of these persons?"
"I don't know that Mrs Granger need stop, or Mrs Wilson either. Mrs Granger, you'd better take Mrs Wilson with you. It is partly in consequence of a statement which this young woman has just been making that I ask you for a warrant. Now, Mrs Wilson, off you go."
But Mrs Wilson showed reluctance.
"I don't know why I'm to be sent away--especially as it's my own daughter--"
Hugh Morice cut her short brusquely,--
"Leave the room!"
Mrs Wilson showed him something of that deference which she had hitherto declined to show to anyone else. Mrs Granger touched her on the shoulder.
"I'm coming! I'm sure, Susan Granger, there's no need for you to show me. No one can ever say I stop where I am not wanted."
When the two elder women had disappeared, Hugh Morice turned his attention to Wilson the housemaid.
"Who is this young person?"