David Beaumont was a man of orderly habits. With the help of Sarah, the housekeeper who had helped him for so many years, his comfortable home was run on a smooth, punctual routine. Not that David was a rigid man, it was simply that he found it simpler to rise at the same time every morning, and have breakfast at an appointed time. Sarah's routine was to first wake David, and then Bill Mead who had been staying there. But today, David had requested that Bill be left to sleep in...