Chapter 101

“My dear boys, how good to see you.” He shook hands with them both and then looked around the room. “I had wondered if one day I might see you here.”

Tristan felt uneasy. He smiled and nodded, but said nothing.

Alfie’s eyelids were lowered slightly, and he looked around the room, too, in a typically bored fashion. “I must confess, I had wondered exactly the same thing,” he said with a faint smile at Wallingford.

“Well, I am glad to see you, I must say. We should talk more but I have some arrangements to see to if we are to have our entertainment this weekend.” He nodded to Overdale over the room. “Until tomorrow,” he said with a nod of his head, and walked away from them chatting to people, touching some, as he went.

“What do you make of that?” Tristan said.

Alfie shook his head and pulled in a breath. “I have no idea, but I don’t think I like it above much.”