"Nothing."
"But if he tells?"
"Tells what?"
"He said to me last night that if anyone knows that--that someone has killed a person, and doesn't at once inform the police, that's being an accessory after the fact."
"Well? He was merely acquainting you with what I take is a legal truism."
"Then he said that, whatever I might choose to do, he did not mean to be an accessory, either before the fact or after. Then he looked at me in such a way--I knew what he meant--and he went right off to bed without saying another word."
"What had you been talking about?"
"About--your uncle."
"Had he introduced the subject or had you?"
"He had; he would keep talking about it. Rodney, he knows, and--he's going to tell."