“What a curious taste some people have,” observed Mr. Thesiger. “Fancy anyone who was talking to you wanting to do anything else. But you surprise me very much, Loraine. I thought our simple Bill was enmeshed in the toils of the beautiful foreign adventuress. Bundle thinks so, I know.”

“Bundle may,” said Loraine. “But I tell you, Jimmy, it isn’t so.”

“Then what’s the big idea?”

“Don’t you think it possible that Bill is doing a bit of sleuthing on his own?”

“Bill? He hasn’t got the brains.”

“I’m not so sure. When a simple, muscular person like Bill does set out to be subtle, no one ever gives him credit for it.”