Chapter 45

True they took no notice of one another, and, after a time Longworth came over and sat down at the next table to ours. He, of course, did not know me, and I therefore judged it safe to address a casual remark to him. It might perhaps enable me later to warn him of what had happened and tell him to clear out. “Motoring through?” I said casually. He nodded. “Jolly place, isn’t it?” he remarked. “I always love dear old Salisbury Plain, ever since I spent six months on it at the beginning of the war. But I don’t know t…