Reflection 11I don’t remember very much about the next day.
I do remember that before I left the boarding house that morning I telephoned Lord Rowden’s house.
He had said that if I rang early he would answer the telephone himself, but I knew I couldn’t speak to him at the studio because of Melanie, so I decided to pretend to be a servant speaking for me.
However, there was no need to do that because when I looked in the telephone book I saw that he had three telephone lines and one had ‘secretary’ against it.
So I rang that number and when a woman answered, I said,
“Will you please give Lord Rowden a message?”
“Who is speaking?” she enquired.
“I am speaking for Miss Samantha Clyde,” I replied. “Will you please tell Lord Rowden that Miss Clyde is very sorry, but she is unable to dine
