But Hilda was not a murderer; she was not dogged by remorse, despair, or the myrmidons of the law; it was murder she was avoiding, not the punishment of murder.

That made, of course, an obvious difference.

"Irrevocably far from London," she said.

Wales is a suburb.

I gave up the idea that it was likely to prove her place of refuge from the two men she was bent on escaping.