“Well, did he say anything?”
“He said, ‘Robert’s here?’ or something of the sort. I suppose he’d heard the bell, or the voices in the hall.”
“Which way does his bedroom face? Could he have seen him coming down the drive?”
“He might have, yes.”
“Well?”
“Well, then, I said ‘Yes,’ and he gave a sort of shrug, and said, ‘Don’t go too far away, I might want you’; and then went in.”
“What did you think he meant by that?”
“Well, he consults me a good deal, you know. I’m his sort of unofficial solicitor in a kind of way.”
“This was a business meeting rather than a brotherly one?”
“Oh, yes. That’s how he regarded it, I’m sure.”