There wouldn't have been time....

It's clearly an atrocious piece of malice." He was speaking with an obvious effort to convince himself that the monstrous thing was false.

But he collapsed suddenly and once more discomfort and silence reigned in the room.
"Stella's not well," Millie Splay took up the tale.

"That's why she is seldom seen before twelve.

Those headaches of hers----" and suddenly she in her turn broke off.