“Well, you can reassure yourself. That extra set of automobile tires had to be accounted for, hadn’t they?”
“I should have accounted for them in any case.”
“Should you, indeed? That’s very interesting, but hardly a responsive answer to my question. I’ll be grateful if you don’t make it necessary for me to pull you up on that again. Now, you say that you didn’t touch anything in the cottage?”
“I said that I did not disturb anything.”
“Oh, you touched something, did you?”
“Yes.”
“What?”
“I touched her hand.”
“I see. You were looking for the rings?”
“No. I didn’t think of the rings.”