“I cannot honestly give you a satisfactory answer.”
“But what do you think?”
“If you press me I will try to put my opinion into words. Mensmore was in some mysterious way associated with the crime; but the degree of association, and whether conscious or unconscious, I do not know.”
“What do you mean by ‘conscious or unconscious’?”
“I am sure that Lady Dyke met her death in his residence; but it is impossible to say now if he was aware of her presence. He was in London at the time, that is quite certain.”
“Do the police know all this?”
“No.”
“I am glad of it. Mensmore did not kill my wife. The suggestion is absurd—wildly absurd.”
“Things look black against him, nevertheless.”
“I tell you it is nonsense. You are on the wrong track, Bruce. What possible reason could he have had to decoy my wife to his flat and there murder her?”