"I was watching Harper over your shoulder, Lady Splay.

He hasn't seen the paragraph.

There's nothing known of it in the servants' hall." Sir Chichester nodded, and Millie Splay observed: "Harper's so imperturbable that he always inspires me with confidence.

I feel that nothing out of the way could really happen whilst he was in the house." And her attitude of tension did greatly relax as she thought, illogically enough, of that stolid butler.

A suggestion made by Martin Hillyard set them to work whilst they waited.
"Let us see if the report is in any of the other papers," and all immediately were busy with that examination--except one again.