Poor girl!" Tarling nodded.
"Terrible!" he said.

"The doctor had to drug her before he could get her to go." "Where is she ?" asked Whiteside "I sent her on an ambulance to a nursing-home in London," said Tarling shortly.

"This is awful, Whiteside." "It's pretty bad," said the detective-inspector, scratching his chin.
"The young lady could supply no information ?" "Nothing, absolutely nothing.

She had gone up to see her mother and had left the door ajar, intending to return by the same way after she had interviewed Mrs.Rider.As a matter of fact, she was let out by the front door.

Somebody was watching and apparently thought that she was coming out by the way she went in, waited for a time, and then as she did not reappear, followed her into the building." "And that somebody was Milburgh ?" said Whiteside.
Tarling made no reply.