both defiant and shifty. It was the look of a schoolboy who knows he has a bad name, and is determined to brazen it out. Why had not Fay Brunton's instincts taken alarm? I wondered. But perhaps Whittall only had that look when he faced my mistress.
\"Oh, it's too expensive for anybody to own as a residence now,\" he said with a laugh. \"I supposed it would be bought by a real estate operator, and subdivided...Have you seen everything?\"
both defiant and shifty. It was the look of a schoolboy who knows he has a bad name, and is determined to brazen it out. Why had not Fay Brunton's instincts taken alarm? I wondered. But perhaps Whittall only had that look when he faced my mistress.
\"Oh, it's too expensive for anybody to own as a residence now,\" he said with a laugh. \"I supposed it would be bought by a real estate operator, and subdivided...Have you seen everything?\"
