“Let’s change the subject, shall we?”
“Why, Laurel?”
“Because Roger’s relationship with Delia has nothing to do with any of this.” Laurel sounded earnest. But she was hiding something just the same. “I’m interested in only one thing ― finding out who wrote that note to my father.”
“Still,” said Ellery, “what was your father’s relationship with Delia Priam?”
“Oh!” Laurel laughed. “Of course you couldn’t know. No, they weren’t having an affair. Not possibly. Besides, I told you Daddy said I was the only woman in his life.”
“Then they were hostile to each other?”
“Why do you keep on the subject of Delia?” she asked, a snap in her voice.
“Why do you keep off it?”
“Dad got along with Delia fine. He got along with everybody.”
“Not everybody, Laurel,” said Ellery.