As the child trotted away, Minnie returned to Luke.
‘They’re cross-word puzzle clues,’ she explained. ‘They’re a fearful waste of time, but if you want to see Tonker we ought to do them, because he won’t get up until he’s finished The Times. Let’s see now—’
‘No,’ objected Luke firmly. ‘Let the gentleman rest. You were telling me, Mrs Cassands, that you told Ohman you’d kill him if he—’
Minnie stared at him in scandalized amazement. ‘I didn’t kill him, if that’s what you mean,’ she protested. ‘Good heavens, how dreadful! You can see how valuable he was to me. I haven’t worried at all since he appeared, except over this divorce business. I was very grateful to him, and quite dependent on him. He worked like a beaver and loved it. Do you know,’ she went on, shaking a pea-pod at him, ‘that
