“I don’t see how that could be. She never had anything to do with him and didn’t even like having him about the house. I never saw them together.”
“May I ask if you know what your father actually did in Burma?”
“No, sometimes he talked about the Mong Hills, but he never made any money in the Orient and used to come back saying that he had been in touch with strange things and people. That used to content him, but latterly he sometimes used to look desperate. As to money, we have always had enough to live quietly.”
“Do you think he had any premonitions of death?”
“No, I’m sure of that. Once he said that it was harder to live than die, so he expected to live a long time.”
“Was that after his last trip?”
“Yes.”
Derrick was silent for a moment. “Does Mrs. Millicent know that I’m working on this?” he asked presently.
She sent him a quick smile. “Yes, and she thinks it’s tremendously kind of you but that it can’t come to anything.”
“My sister knows, too, and can’t see the point, either.”