I must get the foreman first, though, for I don't know the names or addresses of the other men.

I shall tell him frankly that I want to find out the opinions of the servants at the Hall about the missing will, ask him which of his men was the most given to gossip with them, and tell him to send him here to me at ten o'clock to-morrow morning; then when you see him and hear what he has to say, you can judge for yourself how far you care to trust him in the matter, or whether to trust him at all.

Perhaps you will come here a few minutes before ten, and then I can tell you what the foreman has said first." Accordingly at a quarter to ten the next day Mrs.Conway was again at the office.
"I think, Mrs.Conway, that things are going even better than we hoped.

The foreman said that from what little talk he had with the servants, he thought they had all been attached to Mr.Penfold, and that his sisters were by no means popular among them.

He said very often one or other of them would come into the room where they were working and make suggestions, and hunt about themselves to see if they could find anything.