They are very worried already about what has happened.

She made me sound them in her presence, and they were quite ready to accept me as Greenmantle's successor.

But they have their suspicions about what happened at the villa, and they've no love for the woman ...

They'd follow me through hell if I bade them, but they would rather it was my own show.' 'That's all right,' I cried.

'It is the one thing I've been doubtful about.