His business to the study was to put his letter where Giles would be likely to find it on entering the room.

Ursula, how did that letter get into the desk?
'We were all summoned to the study when the cheque was missed.

Etta fetched me.

She said very little, and looked unusually pale.

Giles was in a terrible state of anger, she informed me, and Leah was speaking to him.
'Alas! she had been speaking to some purpose.