What was far more important was that tomorrow's _Wire_ and _Planet_ would contain such an advertisement of her that any one in London or the country who knew of her relations with the dead man would learn at once the value of that knowledge.
When they had gone he sent for Mrs.Carruthers, and learned, to his annoyance, that none of the upper servants except Elizabeth Twitcher had been in service at the Castle for more than four months.

She could only say that during the six weeks that she had been housekeeper there had been very few visitors; and they had been merely callers, except when Colonel Grey had been coming to the Castle and there had been small tennis parties.

She had heard nothing from the servants about his lordship's being on particularly friendly terms with any lady in the neighbourhood.

Hutchings would be the most likely person to know a thing like that.

He had been in service at the Castle all his life.