"Wasn't that the car?" said Barnaby.
But no light step came hurrying up the stairs.
"I'll ask," said Lady Henrietta, and rang. The servant who came knew nothing, and was sent down to make inquiries. She was puzzled by the report.
"I can't understand this!" she said. "Barnaby—they say the car has come back without her."
His look alarmed her. She jumped up quickly.
"I'll see the man myself," she said; "it must be some ridiculous blunder."
She was a long time downstairs. When she came back she was bewildered and indignant.
"They tell me," she said, "that Julia Kelly has been; that she saw Susan before she went out——"
"She came up here," said Barnaby.
"So the servants tell me," she said. "I can hardly believe it—! And the man says that Susan made him drive her straight to the station. He heard her ask when there was a train to London. There is no message—"