IN MRS.

RIDER'S ROOM There was a deep silence.

Tarling could feel his heart thumping almost noisily.
"After I had left Lyne's Store," she said, "I had decided to go to mother to spend two or three days with her before I began looking for work.

Mr.
Milburgh only went to Hertford for the weekends, and I couldn't stay in the same house with him, knowing all that I knew.
"I left my flat at about half-past six that evening, but I am not quite sure of the exact time.

It must have been somewhere near then, because I was going to catch the seven o'clock train to Hertford.