His anger burst out again.
"Joan, indeed! We won't have her mixed up in this sordid business, it's bad enough as it is.

But Joan, no! To suggest that Joan came straight back from the Willoughbys' dance in order to quarrel with a woman whom she was seeing every day here, and, having quarrelled with her, afterwards----No, I won't speak the word.

It's preposterous!" "But I don't suggest, sir, that Miss Whitworth came back in order to quarrel with my mistress," Jenny Prask returned, as soon as Sir Chichester's spate of words ran down.

"I only give you the facts I know.
I am quite sure that Miss Whitworth can quite easily explain why she came back to Rackham Park last night.

There can't be any difficulty about that!" Jenny Prask had kept every intonation of her voice under her control.
There was no hint of irony or triumph.