“Not that I’m aware of.”
“No little affair...?”
“No....”
“Nothing?”
“Your girl was never loose, Canon. She was straight. Sally was straight ... at least,” Mrs. Sixsmith added (with a slight shrug) ... “to the best of my knowledge, she was!”
“In a life of opportunity....”
“Ah, sh——, sir, sh——!”
“Had my daughter debts?”
“Indeed she had ... she owed me money. Much money. But I won’t refer to that.... Sally owed me one thousand pounds.”
“She owed you a thousand pounds?”