“I see.”
“I want you to try and clear things up.”
“In what way?”
“Well, my wife is naturally under a cloud. I want you to explain to the police all about the poison-pen letter, and why you think my wife disappeared; that it was simply because she was leaving me, and not because she was running away from a murder she’d committed.”
“I see.”
“And there’s another reason I’m concerned about that second letter. Dolly is rather a striking-looking young woman. If she were dragged into it, the newspaper men would play her up big. She photographs well... You know the sort of pictures newsmen take.”
“Leg?” Bertha asked.
“Yes. I don’t want that sort of newspaper notoriety for Dolly.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s inadvisable.”