Mensmore’s face hardened somewhat as he answered, “I have seen very little of him, and hardly ever spoken to him.”
“Why? Did you quarrel?”
“N-no, but we just did not happen to meet. Bear in mind, I was in business some years ago, and I am not yet thirty.”
“Did you know his wife?”
“I have never, to my knowledge, seen her.”
“How, then, can you account for the fact that she visited your flat at Raleigh Mansions on November 6.”
“I say that such a statement is mere nonsense.”
“But if it can be proved?”
“It cannot.”