"
"That's all I wanted to know."
I was a little puzzled, but at all events I understood that I
might now take my leave. When I shook hands with Mrs.
Strickland I told her that if I could be of any use to her I
should be very glad. She smiled wanly.
"Thank you so much. I don't know that anybody can do anything
for me."
Too shy to express my sympathy, I turned to say good-bye to
the Colonel. He did not take my hand.
"I'm just coming. If you're walking up Victoria Street,
I'll come along with you."
"All right," I said. "Come on."
Chapter IX
"This is a terrible thing," he said, the moment we got out
into the street.
I realised that he had come away with me in order to discuss
once more what he had been already discussing for hours with
his sister-in-law.
"We don't know who the woman is, you know," he said. "All we
know is that the blackguard's gone to Paris."
"I thought they got on so well."
"So they did. Why, just before you came in Amy said they'd
never had a quarrel in the whole of their married life.
You know Amy. There never was a better woman in the world.
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