There is nothing more that we can do until he comes." He stood for a little while by the table in the hall, staring down at it, and taking particular note of its grain.
"A curious thing," he said.

"The key of her room is missing altogether." To no one did it come at this moment that the disappearance of the key was to prove a point of vast importance.

No one made any comment, and Sir Chichester fell to silence again.

"She looked like a child sleeping," he said at length, "a child without a care." Then he sat down and took the newspaper from his pocket.

Mr.Albany Todd suddenly advanced to Harry Luttrell.