"It's no use glaring at me like that. I'm impervious to threats. I've been the object of too many. Let me tell you something else. A faint suspicion, which I had before I came here, has become almost a certainty. I believe that Baker saw what that young woman did and I believe you saw her also."
"You hound! Damn you! I'd like to throw you out of the house!"
"Oh no, you wouldn't; that's only a momentary impulse. An instant's reflection will show you that this is a position in which the one thing wanted is common sense, and you've got plenty of common sense if you choose to give it a chance. Don't you see that we shall, all of us--Miss Arnott, Jim Baker, you and me--find ourselves in a very uncomfortable situation, if we don't arrive at some common understanding. If Jim Baker saw that girl committing murder, and if you saw her--"
"You have not the faintest right to make such a monstrous insinuation."
"I have invited contradiction and none has come."
"I do contradict you--utterly."
"What, exactly, do you contradict?"
"Everything you have said."
"To descend from the general to the particular. Do you say that you did not see what that girl did?"
"I decline to be cross-examined. I'm your host, sir, I'm not in the witness-box."