"Yet he wanted to go in?"
"He said so."
"And you gave him the keys without question?"
"Certainly, sir."
"Was that not opposed to your usual principles—to your way of doing things, I should say?"
"Perhaps; but principles, by which I suppose you mean my usual business methods, do not govern me in my relations with my brother. He asked me a favor, and I granted it. It would have to have been a much larger one for me to have asked an explanation from him before doing so."
"Yet you are not on good terms with your brother; at least you have not had the name of being, for some time?"
"We have had no quarrel."
"Did he return the keys you lent him?"
"No."