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The trembling turned to stillness as she saw Waldo halt and turn to look at her with suddenly alert eyes.

“England?” he questioned, and when Olympia realized that he was not going to say any more than that, she went on, “It was a woman, a girl I imagine, by her voice—it was pretty…” Olympia swallowed the anger she had been nursing all day and went on steadily. “The girl was anxious to speak to you, she didn’t know who I was, but she told me not to tell your wife.”

He regarded her gravely, his face impassive. “I take it she didn’t give her name?”

“No. The girl said you knew her number,” she replied, and in the small silence that fell between them, she asked, “Waldo, who is she?”