“I would tell you, if I knew,” she said at last. “But I don’t know. I suppose I have lost all sense of values.”
“That is answer enough,” he replied.
* * * * * *
As they drove back to the hotel she turned to him and said:
“When do you want me to be ready?”
“I ought to go back to-morrow,” he told her. “Would that be possible for you?”
“Yes.” Then, a little dramatically, “I place myself in your hands, Eric. Do with me what you will.“
[CHAPTER IX]
It was just a week after the accident that Judy and Noel went to Campden Hill to see Major Crosby. A message had come at last from Dr. Ferguson to the effect that if Miss Juggernaut and her brother cared to see their victim, they might do so between three and five that afternoon.