‘By the way, can you can tell me anything more about that night than what came out in court? It was you who went out the first time, I take it?’
‘Yes. I had been quite unwell for some time, owing to my trouble with George Tressamer. After our final meeting I had a terrible headache, and could not sleep at all. I went out each night about the same hour, but I haven’t the faintest idea where I wandered to or how long I was gone. I got a little sleep after I came in, towards the morning.’
‘And what do you think yourself of this man, Lewis?’
‘I can hardly say. He has shown himself my enemy, and, of course, I cannot like him.’
‘But as to suspecting him?’
‘Oh dear no! I suspect no one.’
‘Not one of the servants? Rebecca, for instance?’
‘No. I haven’t any inkling whatever as to who committed the crime.’
‘Well, I suppose I must leave you. I will do whatever is in my power for your deliverance, not merely from danger, but from disgrace, and if I fail I will never venture in your sight again.’