"That's a lot of money," said the Inspector.
"It would seem so to some, no doubt," said Sturry, in an odiously patronising way. "Miss Paula referred to it as Paltry."
"I take it that Mr. Herriard refused to let her have it?"
"Mr. Herriard, Inspector, said that Miss Paula should have none of his money to waste on Mr. Roydon. To which Miss Paula replied that when he was dead she would spend every penny he left her on Immoral Plays."
The Inspector was shocked. "That's a nice way to talk!" he exclaimed.
"Miss Paula," said Sturry forbearingly, "is not one to Mince Matters."
"What did Mr. Herriard have to say to that?"
"Mr. Herriard said that she had better not count her chickens before they were hatched, since he would possibly be Making a Few Changes."
"Oh, he spoke of changing his will, did he? How did the young lady take that?"
"Being, as one might say, in a Passion, Miss Paula said that she did not care, and did not want Mr. Herriard's money. Mr. Herriard then said that he thought that that was just what she did want, two thousand pounds of it." He paused for his final effect. "'And ready to murder me to get it!" Mr. Herriard said."