The garage would not be helpful, since Slocum, her chauffeur for many years, had gone back to England for a visit.

Dale had been driving the car.

But with an able-bodied man in the gardener's house-- She pulled herself together with a jerk.
"Cornelia Van Gorder, you're going to go crazy before nightfall if you don't take hold of yourself.

What you need is lunch and a nap in the afternoon if you can make yourself take it.

You'd better look up that revolver of yours, too, that you bought when you thought you were going to take a trip to China.