"My office was insecurely locked; any one might easily force an entrance, and a common key would open my door."
Scratch, scratch; the lawyer seems not to notice the doctor's evasion of the question.
"Ahem! As your lawyer, Heath, is there any truth in these stories about a previous knowledge of Burrill?"
"Do you mean my previous knowledge of the man?"
"Yes."
"I never knew the fellow; never saw him until I knocked him down in his first wife's defence."
"Yet, he claimed to know you."
"So I am told."
"And you don't know where he may have seen you?"
"All I know, you have heard in the evidence given to-day."