Five out of the eight gamekeepers are still abroad.

In ordinary times there would have been four at least of them about the roads and woods.

On that night there was only one." "There's the further difficulty that Lord Loudwater had so few friends.
That will make it harder to find out anything about an affair of this kind--if he had one," said Mr.Carrington.
"It will, indeed," said Mr.Flexen, and paused, frowning.

Then he added gravely: "I'm sure that there was such an affair, and I've got to find the woman.".