I understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of their coming to divert if possible the thoughts of the unhappy husband and wife from each other and from themselves.

So on nodding acquiescence to him he asked them what they had seen or done.

To which Lord Godalming answered.
"I could not see him anywhere in the passage, or in any of our rooms.
I looked in the study but, though he had been there, he had gone.

He had, however.

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