“You say that Battle wants the Countess let alone,” he said at last.

“Yes.”

“The idea being that through her he will get at someone else?”

Bundle nodded.

Jimmy frowned deeply as he tried to see where this led. Clearly Battle had some very definite idea in his mind.

“Sir Stanley Digby went up to town early this morning, didn’t he?” he said.

“Yes.”

“O’Rourke with him?”

“Yes, I think so.”

“You don’t think⁠—no, that’s impossible.”