“What did you tell him?”
“I told him that I’d do it. He’d been fair with me, very truthful, and very candid. I trusted him.”
“Did he say anything else?”
“He told me to see that my time could be accounted for — in case that should become necessary.”
“In other words, he expected that you might be accused of the murder.”
“I don’t know. He didn’t say. He only told me that, and I didn’t ask him why.”
“But you knew why, didn’t you?”
She hesitated a moment, then faced him defiantly, and said, “Yes.”
“That’s better,” Mason said. “Now then, you arranged to keep in communication with Peltham?”
“Yes.”