“I met her at the door at Queen’s Hall. I was to go to Cromwell Road to call for her, but she telegraphed to me at the last moment. She was with Charlie, she told me.”
“And where is Charlie?”
“Gone to Servia. He left Charing Cross by the mail last night.”
Max reflected that his friend had not left as his sister supposed.
“And where did you leave Maud?”
“I walked to the ‘tube’ station at Piccadilly Circus, and left her there. She went to Earl’s Court Station, and I took a bus home. She told me that you’d been to see the Doctor earlier in the evening. But why do you ask all this?”
“Because—well, because, Marion, something unusual has occurred,” he replied.
“Unusual!” she echoed. “What do you mean?”
“Did Maud tell you anything about her future movements last night—or mention her father’s intentions?”
“Intentions of what?”