“Yes.”
“That seem to excite him?”
“I don’t know. I couldn’t tell. His voice didn’t show it. I couldn’t see his expressions, you know.”
“But something excited him. It must have. He went back to your house to get something or to do something, and walked into the trap that had been set for you.”
“That’s the thing I can’t understand.”
Bertha looked up and said, “It’s the most exasperating damn situation.”
“What is?”
“This whole business. You’ve got some information that I want.”
“What is it?”
“I don’t know,” Bertha said, “and the hell of it is, you don’t either. It’s something that doesn’t occur to you as being at all important, something that you must have mentioned in driving out here with Bollman.”