Don't send a servant, but see her yourself." Caldew left the room to undertake the investigations allotted to him, and Weyling followed him with a startled expression of face.

He felt overweighted by the magnitude of the task which had been thrust upon him, and doubted his ability to discharge it properly.
"Miss Heredith will be able to give us more information than Sir Philip," remarked Merrington in a friendly tone to Captain Stanhill, as the door closed behind the subordinate officials.

"A woman is generally more observant than a man--particularly if anything underhand has been going on." Captain Stanhill cast a puzzled glance at his companion.

As a simple-minded English gentleman he was quite unable to penetrate the obscurity of expression which masked the meaning of the last remark.
Merrington caught the look, but had formed too poor an opinion of his companion's understanding to explain himself further.

Besides, he liked mystifying people.
"I'm going to put the servants through their facings straight away," he continued.