“Just that. But he asked if—or, rather, when—he might come and see me.”
“And what did you reply?”
“I replied—well, that he might come whenever he liked. What else could I reply?”
“He knew that you were free?—that Colonel Tretheroe was dead?”
“Oh, yes—I mentioned that myself.”
“And then, I suppose, you parted?”
“Yes.”
“Where did you next see him?”
“On the following morning, in the morning-room here, when I came in to offer my condolences about Sir Anthony, and heard that Guy was dead.”
“And I believe that you immediately denounced John Harborough as his murderer?”