BELSIZE: No! They'll nab him in no time.
DAN: Oh … Mrs. Bramson'll be that relieved. And the whole country besides….
BELSIZE: Look here, Dan, any self-respecting murderer would have taken care to mutilate the body to such a degree that nobody could recognise it—and here we come and identify it first go! (DAN folds his arms and looks thoughtful.) Call that clever?… What d'you think?
DAN catches his eye and crosses to the sofa.
DAN: Well, sir, I'm a slow thinker, I am, but though it might be clever to leave the lady unide—unide——
BELSIZE: Unidentified.
DAN (sitting on the edge of the sofa): Thank you, sir…. (Laboriously) Well, though it be clever to leave the lady unidentified and not be caught … hasn't it been more clever to leave her _i_dentified … and still not be caught?
BELSIZE: Why didn't you sleep in your bed on the night of the tenth?
A pause. DAN stiffens almost imperceptibly.
DAN: What you say?