She was interested to hear what had happened at the funeral. Peter and Ackford took it in turns to give her an account of it. ‘There was one disappointment,’ said her husband. ‘What was that?’ she asked. ‘I half-expected that the man who’d ordered Mr Paige’s murder might turn up to gloat. It’s happened before in cases like this. People derive a ghoulish fascination from seeing their enemies lowered into the ground.’ ‘In the event,’ said Ackford, ‘the man we want didn’t appear.’ ‘I think that he did, Gully, but it was not at the funeral.’ ‘Where else?’ ‘In the pages of Hansard,’ said Peter. ‘Gerard Brunt is so incensed at the caricatures of him that he actually wants to change the law of libel. That’s the effect that Mr Paige and his brother have had. They’ve provoked someone into demanding new legislation.’ ‘They might regard that as an achievement,’ said Charlotte.
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