‘After what? After the play-actor? I do not know, I have not heard of her since. I don’t want to. Was not that enough?’
‘And Mr. Jordan—does he know nothing?’
‘I cannot tell. If you are curious to know you can ask.’
‘This is very extraordinary. Why did not Mr. Jordan tell me the relationship? He knew who I was.’
The old man laughed, and Jasper shuddered at his laugh, there was something so base and brutal in it.
‘He was not so proud of how he behaved to Eve as to care to boast of the connection. You might not have liked it, might have fizzed and gone pop.’
Jasper’s brow was on fire, his eyebrows met, and a sombre sparkle was in his eye.
‘You have made no effort to trace her?’
Mr. Babb shrugged his shoulders.