‘You cannot wish to keep what belongs to others. In that sense I think we ought to be glad that the will is found.’
She spoke so coldly that he drew away from her again. The second bell rang.
‘They had better have lunch without us,’ he said.
He rang and bade the servant ask Mr. and Mrs. Rodman to lunch alone. Then he returned to an earlier point of the discussion.
‘You say it was thick with dust?’
‘It was. I believe the lower cupboard has never been open since Mr. Mutimer’s death.’
‘Why should he take a will to church with him?’
Adela shook her head.
‘If he did,’ Mutimer pursued, ‘I suppose it was to think over the new one he was going to make. You know, of course, that he never intended this to be his will?’
‘We do not know what his last thoughts may have been,’ Adela replied, in a low voice but firmly.