That very afternoon Mr.Manley heard it from Helena Truslove, and the next morning Mr.Flexen received two anonymous letters conveying the information to him, and suggesting that Colonel Grey and the Lady Loudwater had between them made away with her husband.

It is hard to say whether Mr.Manley or Mr.Flexen was more annoyed by William Roper's blabbing.
But there was nothing to be done.

The scandal must run its course.

Mr.
Flexen did not think that it would find its way into the papers, local or London.

None the less, he was alive to the danger that a sudden heavy pressure might be put on the police, and he might be forced to take ill-advised action, start a prosecution which would do Lady Loudwater infinite harm, and yet end in a fiasco which would leave the mystery just where it was.