“So the financial crisis was over?”
“Yes.”
“Why did none of you tell me of this before?”
“Why should we?” asked Henry coolly. “It didn’t arise.”
“The question of the guilt or innocence of every single one of you arises,” said Alleyn. “As you no doubt realize, Lady Katherine has told us of your financial difficulties. Lord Charles has told us that there is a bailiff in the flat. People do not murder a man who is on the point of rescuing them from bankruptcy.”
“Well,” said Henry, “we didn’t murder Uncle G.”
“Who, in your opinion, did murder him?”
“I’ve no opinion about it.”
“You don’t share your mother’s conviction of Lady Wutherwood’s homicidal insanity?”
“Does my mother feel convinced about that?”