‘Barbed wire?’ Mr Campion echoed in astonishment.
‘So they say.’ Amanda seemed to find the fact interesting but not extraordinary. ‘He’s very much of a country person. I don’t know quite where the gold comes from, but he picks things up and sells them, and I should think he makes quite a bit on the side. Odds and ends, you know. He’s just given Dinah a bicycle bell which he must have got from somewhere. They were oiling it because it was very wet, but it was quite a good one.’
They wandered into the house together and joined Minnie and Tonker, who were sitting placidly in the drawing-room amid a welter of dirty glasses, talking amicably about the probable reaction of Lady Glebe and The Revver to Prune’s affair with Luke.
‘The woman may say anything,’ declared Tonker. ‘She’s insane. She
