“Of course,” the Marquis responded sharply. “I have made every possible arrangement of that sort.”
“I just thought you would. There is no one more efficient than you are, Louis, when you have work to do.”
“I most certainly have no intention,” the Marquis said, “of making a mistake where this mission is concerned.”
As he had been talking, he must have opened the door and walked out for his voice faded away.
Ivana was then aware that he and the visitor were moving down the passage towards the front door.
She did not dare move.
She held her breath as she heard him saying ‘goodbye’ and the Marquis then closed the door quietly behind him.
She was wondering frantically what she should say to him if by any chance he came into the drawing room.
To her relief, however, she heard him walk ba
