Colonel Grey was lying to him just as Lady Loudwater had lied.

What could be their reason?
What on earth had they done?
He kept his astonishment out of his face, and said in a sympathetic voice: "Yes, I can see that.

And then, again, it would have been painful and very unpleasant to feel that your thoughtlessness had landed Lady Loudwater in the Divorce Court." "Oh, Lord, no!" said Colonel Grey quickly.

"There was no chance of any divorce proceedings.

Even for a divorce case, at any rate one brought by the husband, there must be _some_ grounds; he must have _some_ evidence.
The cock-and-bull story of a gamekeeper is hardly enough to found a divorce case on, is it ?" "Oh, I don't know.