The inspector was writing rapidly.
"You were then requested to leave the house, and I think you left quite quietly?"
"Yes."
"What did you do then?"
"I climbed over the wall into the garden and waited for an opportunity to get into the house again and speak to Copplestone or Miss Manderson."
"You were behaving rather strangely, were you not, Mr. Layton?" the inspector asked.
"I suppose I was."
"If you had heard of any one else acting in the same way, you would have thought that he could hardly have been in a normal state of mind?"
"I expect I should."
"Yet you say you were quite yourself?"