Lady Splay must be fetched down.

But hurry as he might, he was not in time.

For a few seconds Joan and Jenny Prask were alone in the hall, and all Jenny's composure left her on the instant.

She stepped quickly over to Joan, and in a voice vibrating with hatred and passion, she hissed: "But you'll have to say why you came back.

You'll have to say who you came back to see.