The Baron could hardly wish to touch up his eyebrows, Selina thought. Then she noticed that there was a slightly luminous tip to the brush.
It puzzled her what it would be used for. Then she perceived that a small bottle beside those containing pills gleamed in exactly the same way.
She pulled off the spectacles to look at it closer and she realised, as they left her nose, that neither the brush nor the bottle showed any colour except a natural brown.
Puzzled, she held the spectacles on to her nose again and realised that she had discovered something important.
Quickly she opened the drawers of the dressing table. The top one contained handkerchiefs, the one below it, ties, but in the bottom drawer there were stacks of cards.
Most of them were in their sealed covers, but two packs wer
