“You do say so?”
“Emphatically, yes.”
“You didn’t drive him away?”
“No.”
“That trip you made by taxicab to the Kosling bungalow wasn’t your second trip?”
“Certainly not.”
“Kosling is a client of yours. He’d have called you if there been trouble. You wouldn’t be trying to protect him, would you?”
“Aren’t you funny?”
“Am I?”
“No, but you’re trying to be.”