The Inspector thanked him, and requested him to ask Miss Herriard to come to him.
Paula was not afraid of policemen. She answered the Inspector's questions impatiently; and when he asked her if she had had any quarrel with Nathaniel, said that no one could possibly live for half a day with Nathaniel without quarrelling with him. But when the Inspector wanted to know why she had quarrelled with her uncle, she replied haughtily that it was none of his business.
This did nothing to prejudice him in her favour, and since under his remorseless probing she very soon lost her temper it was not long before he had learnt that she had wanted Nathaniel to give her money for some undivulged purpose, and that he had refused.
"But if you think that that's got anything to do with the murder you're a fool!" Paula said. "I shouldn't have told you, only that the whole house knows it, so that you were bound to find it out sooner or later. Do you want to know anything else?"
"Yes, miss, I want to know what you did when you left the drawing-room after tea."
"Oh, I don't know!" she said. "Do you think I keep a record of my movements?"
"Did you go straight upstairs?"
She condescended to give the matter a little thought. "No; I went into the library. I went upstairs later, with Mr. Roydon."
"Did you go to your own room?"
"Of course! Where else should I go?"