'Then the governor must know Ravengar didn't commit suicide in the Channel? The governor never said a word to me!'
'You don't imagine the governor tells you everything, do you?' said Simon cruelly.
'Have you shown him the photo?' Albert asked.
'No,' said Simon, with a certain bluntness.
'Why not?'
'Well, for one thing, I've had no chance, and for another I wanted to find out something more first. I'd just like the governor to see that I'm not an absolute idiot.... Though I should have thought he might have found that out before now.'
'He doesn't think you're an absolute idiot,' said Albert.
'He acts as if he did,' said Simon. The Paris trip still rankled.
A pause followed.
'Another thing,' Albert recommenced. 'Even supposing Ravengar's alive, it's not very likely he'd venture here, of all places.'