DETECTIVE. And the owner of the house is named Walström, a dyer, about sixty years old, married——
ANDERSON. Why don't you go on yourself? You can't pump me any longer.
DETECTIVE. Is it thought that the fire was started on purpose?
ANDERSON. That's what people think of all fires.
DETECTIVE. And whom do they suspect?
ANDERSON. The insurance company always suspects anybody who has an interest in the fire—and for that reason I have never had anything insured.
DETECTIVE. Did you find anything while you were digging?
ANDERSON. Mostly one finds all the door-keys, because people haven't got time to take them along when the house is on fire—except now and then, of course, when they have been taken away——
DETECTIVE. There was no electric light in the house?
ANDERSON. Not in an old house like this, and that's a good thing, for then they can't put the blame on crossed wires.