“But why should you keep anything back?” asked Barrant softly.
Thalassa looked at him with a startled air, then recovered himself quickly. “I’m not keeping anything back,” he said. “Why should you say that?”
“I did not say it. You said I’d get no more out of you.”
“Because there is nothing more to be got. Is that plain enough?”
“Quite. Well then, let us go over the events of this night once more. Perhaps that will help you to recall something which you have forgotten.”
“That’s not likely.”
“Nevertheless, we will try. You were busy in the coal cellar at the time, I think you said?”
“At what time?” said Thalassa with a quick glance.
“At the time the crash happened upstairs.”
“Yes.”