Chapter 30

It was the tea hour. Jack had come after Bobo, but found everybody out. They had left word for him to wait, so he drifted up to the library where they usually had tea, and picking up a book he dropped into a chair to read. At his left hand hung a portière dividing the library from the central hall, which ran up through the house. After a little while Miriam and Bobo came up in the elevator. Evidently there had been a misunderstanding about Jack's arrival--possibly some other servant had admitted them, for Miriam…