"Oh yes!" Stephen answered. "What killed him?"

"You have the wrong word. Not what: who."

She looked at him, something hard and anxious in her eyes. "Was he murdered, then?"

"Stabbed in the back."

She shuddered. "How horrible! How horrible!"

There was a silence. Joseph broke it. "You oughtn't to be here, Paula," he said feebly.

"Why not?"

"Dewy girlhood," Stephen explained.

"Oh!" She hunched a scornful shoulder. "What are we to do?"

"I suppose we ought to notify the police. In fact, I may as well do so at once," Stephen said, moving to the door.