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'I won't pretend to understand how that may be, Colonel Osborne; but I
think you must be aware, after, what took place in Curzon Street, that
it would have been better that you should not have attempted to see Mrs
Trevelyan. Whether you have seen her I do not know.'
'What business is it of yours, Mr Stanbury, whether I have seen that
lady or not?'
'Unhappily for me, her husband has made it my business.'
'Very unhappily for you, I should say.'
'And the lady is staying at my mother's house.'
'I presume the lady is not a prisoner in your mother's house, and that
your mother's hospitality is not so restricted but that her guest may
see an old friend under her roof.' This, Colonel Osborne said with an
assumed look of almost righteous indignation, which was not at all lost
upon Bozzle. They had returned back towards the bookstall, and Bozzle,
with his eyes fixed on a copy of the 'D. R.' which he had just bought,
was straining his ears to the utmost to catch what was being said.
'You best know whether you have seen her or not.


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