"There are conditions," said Quarles, "and one or two more questions."
"I am willing to answer any questions."
"Did you often visit your uncle?"
"Only twice in ten years, and on each occasion he was not very well—a touch of gout, which was what made him so ill-tempered, I imagine. My brother Charles was with me on one occasion; my sister, I believe, never went there."
"Yet you all expected to profit by his death?"
"His letters certainly gave us to understand that we should, and so far the will was no surprise to us."
"Has the clause in the will which forbids the removal of anything from the house been observed?" Quarles asked.
"Most certainly."
"I mean with regard to trifling things."
"Nothing has been taken. Of course the will has been complied with."