«Then the man was a pauper from the workhouse.»
«Well, he must have been, I suppose.»
«Are workhouse paupers usually fat and well-fed?»
«Well, no — come to think of it, not as a rule.»
«In fact, it struck Tommy Pringle and his friend that this was something a little out of the way in a workhouse subject?»
«Yes.»
«And if the alimentary canal was so entertaining to these gentlemen, I imagine the subject had come by his death shortly after a full meal.»
«Yes — oh, yes — he'd have had to, wouldn't he?»
«Well, I don't know,» said Lord Peter. «That's in your department, you know. That would be your inference, from what they said.»
«Oh, yes. Undoubtedly.»