"Exactly. And don't you think it strange that he should arrive there the very day after we had taken our departure?"
"I see nothing strange in it."
"And then, talking of his arrival at Paris, he made use of the plural 'we.' 'We arrived,' he said, and then, suddenly checking himself, he altered it to 'I did not arrive.' Do you remember it?"
"I can't say I do."
"But I do, though, and wondered at it. Now who are they who compose the 'we'?"
"He and his agent, probably; or he and those who were conveying the picture."
"If he meant those persons only, why should he check himself so sharply?"
My uncle shrugged his shoulders, as if he were growing tired of the subject. "I think, Frank," he said, "that you are attaching too much importance to a trivial expression."
"Possibly I may be; but I cannot help thinking that a mystery surrounds the production of Angelo's picture, and that the mystery is in some way connected with George."