"Gutted!"
"Alonzo," Groll said, "you're in a bad way. Now I want to put some questions to you."
Bofinger nodded.
"I wanted to get things clear in my head. The woman, of course, has been the weak point. What were your relations?"
"Dog eat dog."
"You tried keeping her under by scaring her, then?"
"Yes."
Groll shook his head.
"A mistake, Alonzo. You ought to have made love to her. You can only bully a woman that way. Fear won't hold them! So she was sullen all the time?"