It had not baffled Sergeant Cuff.

I was about to mention this, with all possible mildness, and with every necessary protest against being supposed to cast a slur upon Rachel--when the servant came in to say that the doctor had gone, and that my aunt was waiting to receive us.
This stopped the discussion.

Mr.Bruff collected his papers, looking a little exhausted by the demands which our conversation had made on him.
I took up my bag-full of precious publications, feeling as if I could have gone on talking for hours.

We proceeded in silence to Lady Verinder's room.
Permit me to add here, before my narrative advances to other events, that I have not described what passed between the lawyer and me, without having a definite object in view.

I am ordered to include in my contribution to the shocking story of the Moonstone a plain disclosure, not only of the turn which suspicion took, but even of the names of the persons on whom suspicion rested, at the time when the Indian Diamond was believed to be in London.