Barbara stayed with her.
We had found Adrian's will, leaving everything to Doria and appointing Jaffery and myself joint executors and trustees for his wife and the child that was to come, among his private papers in the Louis XV cabinet in the drawing-room.

We had consulted his bankers and put matters in a solicitor's hands with a view to probate.

Everything was in order.

We found his own personal bills and receipts filed, his old letters tied up in bundles and labelled, his contracts, his publisher's returns, his lease, his various certificates neatly docketed.

It was the private desk of a careful business man, rather than that of our old unmethodical Adrian.