“You did. I mean you really did.”
“I’m glad to hear it.”
“You should be. It was most advantageous for you, but you see, I’m an older man and a wiser man, and, if I may say so, an older friend. Before she’d take any drastic steps, she’d consult me.”
“You’ve known her for some time?”
“Oh, yes, a very nice young woman — a very nice young woman.”
“That makes it nice,” I said.
“I can appreciate her generosity,” Crumweather said, “in trying to protect you, Donald, but I can’t condone it.”
“No?”
“No, not for a moment. Of course, Donald, a desperate man will do almost anything; but, even so, I can’t appreciate how any man could so far forget himself as to let a woman put himself in the position of being an accessory after the fact, an accomplice to the crime of murder.”
“Indeed.”