The business of serving gave Gerald a few moment’s grace, for he was dubious about the effect on an elderly female, not in the best of health, of raking up old memories. “Let’s hope your successor is worthy of you. Distress like hers might palliate far greater offences than she ever committed. But the current rumblings of internal discontent across the Channel were productive of unease in certain quarters. Now keep still. I was sitting up, lamenting your departure, dear Thames, when, hearing an odd noise, I went to the landing, and, by the light of a dark lantern, saw Jack Sheppard, stealing up stairs, followed by two men with crape on their faces. They sat face to face beneath an experienced-looking rucksack and a brand new portmanteau and a leather handbag, in the afternoon-boat train that goes from Charing Cross to Folkestone for Boulogne. ‘What are you after this time, miss?’ asked Jack. “Better,” said Ann Veronica, with an unreal alacrity. “I really do not believe,” he announced with satisfaction, “that any one would recognize me.
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