"No."
"Clothes singed?"
(Item: If not through the head, perhaps through the body?)
"Yes. Badly. Bits of the parachute too."
"From where you were on the roof lots of people could see you?"
(Item: If you'd done anything you'd no business to do, for instance?)
"Any number of people I should say," Monty had replied rather faintly. "But I don't see what you're getting at. You were up there too. What is it all about?"
And here Philip had seen fit to intervene, rather quickly.
"Yes, that's what I'm wondering, Inspector. Is it a proper question to ask? And is it proper to ask you if you'd like a glass of whisky, by the way?"