Wood; "and I did so to see how far your effrontery would carry you. I can’t do it even decently myself, and I dare not run the risk of ruining all my clothes. ’ The sergeant’s air became positively avuncular. ‘Indeed?’ Gerald said politely. “Why on earth,” he asked, “did you hurt me like that?” Ann Veronica did her best to think she had not deliberately attempted to cause him pain. “Well, you’ve seen the kitchen and the dining room, but did I show you the basement?” He asked. But he reckoned without his host. “It’s Ennison, isn’t it?” he exclaimed. “NO!” she said, at last, with something in her voice that reminded Ann Veronica of a sprung tennis-racket. Spurlock advanced, the censer swung high. “You are certain of this. I should have thought my note cleared up everything. “Annabel;” he moaned. She had left for ever the cage, the galling leash: she was free.