"He or she ?" "He--the Honourable Anthony Palliser by name, son of Stobart Palliser, who was at Eton with me." She nodded.
"I expect I know his mother.

What exactly do you mean by 'disappeared' ?" Tallente was looking out of the window.

A slight hardness had crept into his tone and manner.

He had the air of one reciting a story.
"The young man and I differed last Tuesday night," he said.

"In the language of the novelists, he walked out into the night and disappeared.
Only an hour before dinner, too.