"I mean that she was just asking if she might go out." M.Formery beckoned the inspector to him, and said to him in a voice too low for the others to hear: "Just slip up to her room and search her trunks." "There is no need to take the trouble," said Guerchard, in the same low voice, but with sufficient emphasis.
"No, of course not.

There's no need to take the trouble," M.Formery repeated after him.
The door opened, and Sonia came in.

She was still wearing her travelling costume, and she carried her cloak on her arm.

She stood looking round her with an air of some surprise; perhaps there was even a touch of fear in it.

The long journey of the night before did not seem to have dimmed at all her delicate beauty.