Lord Peter Wimsey 01 - Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Classics, Historical
ISBN: 9781480417168
Google: PIwpfXahqwIC
Amazon: 1400161304
Goodreads: 17673753
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 1922-12-31T23:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER VII
ON RETURNING TO THE flat just before lunch-time on the following morning, after a few confirmatory researches in Balham and the neighbourhood of Victoria Station, Lord Peter was greeted at the door by Mr. Bunter (who had gone straight home from Waterloo) with a telephone message and a severe and nursemaid-like eye.
âLady Swaffham rang up, my lord, and said she hoped your lordship had not forgotten you were lunching with her.â
âI have forgotten, Bunter, and I mean to forget. I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request.â
âLady Swaffham said, my lord, she was counting on you. She met the Duchess of Denver yesterdayââ
âIf my sister-in-lawâs there I wonât go, thatâs flat,â said Lord Peter.
âI beg your pardon, my lord, the Dowager Duchess.â
âWhatâs she doing in town?â
âI imagine she came up for the inquest, my lord.â
âOh, yesâwe missed that, Bunter.â
âYes, my lord. Her Grace is lunching with Lady Swaffham.â
âBunter, I canât. I canât, really. Say Iâm in bed with whooping cough, and ask my mother to come round after lunch.â
âVery well, my lord. Mrs. Tommy Frayle will be at Lady Swaffhamâs, my lord, and Mr. Milliganââ
âMr. who?â
âMr. John P. Milligan, my lord, andââ
âGood God, Bunter, why didnât you say so before? Have I time to get there before he does? All right. Iâm off. With a taxi I can justââ
âNot in those trousers, my lord,â said Mr. Bunter, blocking the way to the door with deferential firmness.
âOh, Bunter,â pleaded his lordship, âdo let meâjust this once. You donât know how important it is.â
âNot on any account, my lord. It would be as much as my place is worth.â
âThe trousers are all right, Bunter.â
âNot for Lady Swaffhamâs, my lord. Besides, your lordship forgets the man that ran against you with a milk-can at Salisbury.â
And Mr. Bunter laid an accusing finger on a slight stain of grease showing across the light cloth.
âI wish to God Iâd never let you grow into a privileged family retainer, Bunter,â said Lord Peter, bitterly, dashing his walking-stick into the umbrella-stand. âYouâve no conception of the mistakes my mother may be making.â
Mr. Bunter smiled grimly and led his victim away.
When an immaculate Lord Peter was ushered, rather late for lunch, into Lady Swaffhamâs drawing-room, the Dowager Duchess of Denver was seated on a sofa, plunged in intimate conversation with Mr. John P. Milligan of Chicago.
âIâm vurry pleased to meet you, Duchess,â had been that financierâs opening remark, âto thank you for your exceedingly kind invitation. I assure you itâs a compliment I deeply appreciate.â
The Duchess beamed at him, while conducting a rapid rally of all her intellectual forces.
âDo come and sit down and talk to me, Mr. Milligan,â she said. âI do so love talking to you great business menâlet me see, is it a railway king you are or something about puss-in-the-cornerâat least, I donât mean that exactly, but that game one used to play with cards, all about wheat and oats, and there was a bull and
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