is that simply a phenomenon of the past few years?’
If Rob thought that Hal was engaging in whim whams himself he did not say so. He had too much respect for his employer’s intellect.
‘Not that I know of.’
‘And strange goings-on in the countryside, you have heard nothing of that?’
Rob shook his head. ‘Not until the servant girls began to disappear, and the two men of whom we spoke. Why?’
‘Nothing. Like my moral sense, my curiosity is light-minded and frivolous—as you well know. Only people are telling me different stories about the same thing.’
He did not elaborate, but left Rob looking after him, wondering what Devenish was up to now. Rob sometimes thought that perhaps Devilish was not a bad nickname for his friend, even though he knew that it was undeserved.
What was puzzling Devenish was why Drusilla and Cordelia Faulkner—who both struck him as possessing souls of simple truth—should believe that Jeremy Faulkner engaged in whim whams like his father’s, whilst Rob, that man of sense, did not. There must be a sensible answer to that, and one which he would endeavour to discover.
The advantage being that whilst he did so he could further his acquaintance with Jeremy’s widow.
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