"How did he get to Lynn Station that morning ?" "In the motor car," Cecil answered.
"Who drove it ?" Andrew asked.
"Major Forrest," Cecil answered.
"It is a lie!" Andrew declared.

"The car never went a hundred yards beyond the gates.

I know that for a fact." Again there was silence.

The Princess intervened.
"Mr.Andrew," she began--"I beg your pardon, Mr.De la Borne--supposing Lord Ronald did wish to keep his departure and the manner of it a great secret, why should it trouble you?
You don't suppose, I presume, that there has been a fight, or anything of that sort ?" "I only know," Andrew answered, "that the brother of one of my dearest friends has disappeared from this house, after spending several days in the company of a man of bad reputation.

That is quite enough for me.