CHAPTER 12.
Frank Mallet and Lady Greendale crossed to Southampton by the twelve o'clock boat, and arrived in London at three.
"I have been thinking," she said, as they went up, "that it will be better for me to stop in town.

I shall have less difficulty in answering questions there than I should have at home.

Everyone is leaving now, and in another week there will be scarcely a soul in London I know; and I shall keep down the front blinds, and no one will dream of my being there.

I shall only have to mention to Bertha's own maid that my daughter has remained at Cowes, that I have left Anna with her, and that she can wait upon me until she returns.

There will be another advantage in it--you can see me whenever you are in town.