She was curious, but then dinner was served and they went into the dining room.
They talked of a great many things during the meal, but still he did not tell her why he had come to London in such a hurry.
When she went up to bed, she felt angry at the omission.
‘He does not trust me with his affairs,’ she said to herself, ‘and yet, because he can read my – thoughts he knows too much – about mine already.’
As she climbed into bed, she was thinking that it was a very strange thing to think about her husband.
*
When morning came, Aleda learnt that Doran had already left the house and regretted that he could not be back in time for luncheon.
Because she thought that it was something interesting she might do, Aleda decided that she would go shopping.
She was sure despite the amount of c
