And what took you to Remenham House?’
‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously. He waited for hours after
dusk but she never arrived. She hesitated about her name, and, being prompted, gave
it at last as Ann Veronica Smith, 107A, Chancery Lane. ’
‘Don’t be too sure,’ said Miss Froxfield darkly, with a mischievous glance at
her betrothed. She
was by his side. He wished he had the time to solve this riddle,
for it was a riddle, and four-square besides. This is a joke of yours. ’ She eyed him. After he had eaten dinner with Ruth, he
had gone to McClintock's; and he had heard music such as he had heard only in
the great concert halls. People hounded him about
the disappearances mercilessly for weeks after the
concert, first the police, then the Becks, then people from
school. But
after a time I learned the ways of the parrakeets, and they would come down to
me like doves in the stories. “Why not? It might amuse me.
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