CHAPTER 10
UNCLE WILLIAM’S GUILTY CONSCIENCEAfter a fifteen-minute audience with Great-aunt Caroline alone in the drawing-room, Mr Campion returned to Joyce, who was waiting for him curled up in an arm-chair before the morning-room fire. She glanced up as he came in, and he noticed how pale and scared she was. He offered her a cigarette and lit one himself.
‘Do you think that by the time I’m eighty-four I’ll be like Mrs Faraday?’ he inquired. ‘No, don’t say it. She is the most remarkable person I’ve ever met. I felt my allegiance to the firm required me to report our discovery to her before I told Oates. She took it marvellously. A very grand old bird. Stanislaus is right. She’s exactly like a High Court judge. I say,’ he continued, turning on the girl suddenly, ‘I hope I haven’t scared
