"He says he just knows her to speak to. But one's got to find somebody who has seen them together. You remember the Thompson case. It was the interview in the tea-shop that clinched it."
"What I want to know," said Wimsey, "is why——"
"Why what?"
"Why didn't they compromise?" It was not what he had been going to say, but he felt defeated, and those words would end the sentence as well as any others.
"What's that?" asked Hardy, quickly.
Peter explained.
"When the question of survivorship came up, the Fentimans were ready to compromise and split the money. Why didn't Miss Dorland agree? If your idea is the right one, it was much the safest way. But it was she who insisted on an inquiry."
"I didn't know that," said Hardy. He was annoyed. All kinds of "stories" were coming his way to-day, and to-morrow there would probably be an arrest, and he wouldn't be able to use them.
"They did agree to compromise in the end," said Parker. "When was that?"
"After I told Penberthy there was going to be an exhumation," said Wimsey, as though in spite of himself.