“I want you to do most of the saying,” Nick replied. “Tell me, and give it to me straight, what do you know about Mr. Cyrus Darling?”
Kate Crandall heard him without a change of countenance.
“Well, just now, Mr. Carter, I know nothing about him,” she said pointedly. “He’s dead.”
“What did you know about him when alive, then?” Nick demanded.
“Very little. So little, Mr. Carter, that I’m quite ashamed of myself.”
“Why so?”
“Because, when I discovered the truth, it was not at all to my liking.[Pg 22]”
“What truth?”
“That he was a married man.”
“Do you mean that you did not know it before he died?”