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Grant answered the 'phone in Chesterfield Street. To Smeaton's inquiry, he replied that Miss Monkton had just left the house with Mr Wingate. They were lunching out somewhere, but she had left word that she would be back about three o'clock.
"Any message, sir? " he concluded.