“This isn’t a lady’s glove⁠—no, not even the large kind of loose glove ladies wear nowadays. Fit it on, sir, a moment.”

He adjusted the blackened object over Jimmy’s hand.

“You see⁠—it’s large even for you.”

“Do you attach importance to this discovery?” inquired Sir Oswald coldly.

“You never know, Sir Oswald, what’s going to be important or what isn’t.”

There was a sharp tap at the door and Bundle entered.

“I’m so sorry,” she said apologetically. “But Father has just rung up. He says I must come home because everybody is worrying him.”

She paused.

“Yes, my dear Eileen?” said George encouragingly, perceiving that there was more to come.