“Yes.”
“Experience of character, human nature, and so forth?”
“Yes.”
“Is it not a fact, Dr Ingelow, that one of your daughters met with a narrow escape from drowning some time ago? Was cut off by the tide?”
“That is so.”
“When did this occur?”
“About two years and a half ago.”
“Was it anywhere near the time of Hubert Dorrien’s disappearance?”
“It was.”
“Before or after?”