“When he called in here at four o’clock this morning.”
“Why, he just wanted to know how I’d stood the ordeal and wanted to apologize for getting me involved in a case which put me in such a position.”
“And after he’d done all that, what did he want?”
“Why, nothing.”
“He mentioned something more or less casually?”
“Oh, he wanted to know how much talking we’d do, and I told him he didn’t need to worry, that you wouldn’t divulge any information. He said he hoped particularly you wouldn’t tell them anything about what case you were working on or about any letters. I told him he could go to bed and go to sleep with a mind free from worry.”
“How about Philip? Was he with his dad?”
“No. That’s why the father didn’t come back here. He and Philip had some difference of opinion.”
“Over what?”
“I don’t know, lover, but I think it was over you.”