After a time, there came a timid and subdued knock at the door.

Mrs.Dexter signed to Celia to open it and she did so.

It was Smith, the butler.
"The Inspector has come, Miss Grant, and is asking for Lord Heyton," he said in a tremulous voice.
Heyton turned at the sound of his name and went out.
"How is the Marquess, my lord ?" asked Smith, who was deeply agitated.
"Oh, he's all right," said Heyton.

"I mean, the doctor thinks he'll pull round.

Here, don't make more fuss than is necessary, Smith; keep the house quiet and tell the servants to keep their mouths shut." Smith looked at him with surprise; for Heyton's manner was scarcely that of a son whose father had nearly been done to death.