Chapter 16: The Woman with the Red Hat

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌​⁠‘There is one thing, Prince, that we have just got to settle straight off,’ said Theodore Racksole.

They were all three seated—Racksole, his daughter, and Prince Aribert— round a dinner table in a private room at the Hôtel Wellington. Racksole had duly arrived by the afternoon boat, and had been met on the quay by the other two. They had dined early, and Racksole had heard the full story of the adv