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Most mysterious! The disaster could hardly have occurred
but for the fact that the young girl Angelina, who was supposed to
sleep on the premises, had been called away late at night to look after
a suffering aunt. The old woman, it appeared, was liable to sudden
heart-attacks. She had been round to see the Duchess early in the
morning with endless apologies, and had fortunately been able to
corroborate her niece's story.
"I am glad of it," concluded the bishop. "Because that maid, when I saw
her, struck me as rather a flighty young person--the sort of girl who
would take advantage of her mistress's absence to have a little
flirtation with a policeman round the corner. I am glad the aunt could
explain things so satisfactorily. I was wrong about that girl. Shows
how careful one must be in judging of other people, doesn't it? I must
say she looked to me like a regular little coquette."
Denis had so little sympathetic comment to make on this painful story
that Mr. Heard was quite surprised at his indifference.


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