“Despite the fact that I am unable to walk.”
“I don’t want to have any misunderstanding about that,” Tragg observed.
Karr said, “You don’t need to have any. I can’t walk.”
“You were here alone in this flat,” Tragg said. “So far as is known, you, the housekeeper, and Hocksley were the only three persons under this roof.”
“Hocksley!” Miss Wickford exclaimed.
Tragg turned to look at her. “Hocksley,” he said.
“Why...!”
“The name mean anything to you?” Tragg asked.
She smiled and shook her head somewhat dubiously.
Tragg kept his eyes boring into hers. “But,” he asked affably in the manner of one making small talk, “you’ve known a Hocksley somewhere, I take it, Miss Wickford?”