I must attend to all that, because dad gets flustered if several messages are handed in at the same time." "Come and have tea, then, about four o'clock.

The ravens will have fled by then." "The ravens ?" "The police, you dear child, and the reporters, and the photographers--the flock of weird fowl which gathers from all points of the compass when the press gets hold of what is called 'a first-rate story,' By midday I shall be in the thick of it.

But, thank goodness, they will know nothing to draw them your way until the inquest takes place, and not even then if _I_ can manage it." "Don't mind me, Mr.Grant.You must not keep anything back on my account.
I'll try and come at four.

But I may be very busy in the office.

By the way, you ought to know.