"Still, I deserve all I get, and that's so rare in life that it's something in the nature of an experience."
Mavis did not speak. She was hoping no one would come to interrupt them.
"There's one thing you might have told me about," he went on.
"What?"
Perigal dropped his eyes as he said:
"Someone who died."
Mavis's heart was pitiless.
"Why should I?"
"He was mine as much as yours. There are several things I want to know. And if it were the last word I utter, all that happened over that has 'hipped' me more than anything."
"I shall tell you nothing," declared Mavis.