“All right. I suppose you want to know what I think of him now.”
“You guessed it.”
“Well, I think he’s all right.”
“You mean you don’t think he’s in it?”
“Exactly.”
“But why? What did he say to change your opinion?”
“Nothing. But I never said I thought he was guilty.”
“But you did all the same. I mean you thought so.”
“I won’t deny that I did have a sneaking impression that way, but something in the way he spoke made me change my mind. Oh, I know he’s not very prepossessing so far as looks go but, son, there’s something in his face when he talks that tells me he’s honest. Of course, I may be wrong, but that’s the way things stand in my mind just now.”
“Well, I’m neutral,” Jack said after a moment’s thought. “But what shall we do now, take a walk or a nap? I’m not sleepy.”