"You'd better examine my uncle," Stephen told the Inspector roughly. "He apparently knows all the answers."
"Was your quarrel of a serious nature, sir?"
"I've already told you that I wasn't thrown out of the house."
"Am I to take it that at the time the deceased was last seen alive you were on friendly terms with him?"
"Temporary truce," said Stephen.
"When did you last set eyes on the deceased, sir?"
Stephen took a moment to think this over. "Not sure of the time. I left the drawing-room when Roydon had finished reading his play. Probably about half-past seven."
"When you state that you left the drawing-room, am I to understand that you left the deceased there?" "Everyone was there."
"And between that time, and the time when you discovered his body, you did not see him?"
"No."