‘Yes. About that. Why?’
‘I just wondered. It looks as if he planned to spend a night somewhere.’
‘In Scotland, you mean?’
‘Yes. The Testament and the French novel. And yet he didn’t speak French.’
‘Perhaps the Scotch party didn’t either.’
‘No. Scotch parties usually don’t. But if he planned to spend a night somewhere he couldn’t meet you that day in Paris.’
‘Oh, being a day late wouldn’t worry Bill. He could have sent me a wire on the 4th.’
‘Yes…I wish I could think of his reason for blacking himself all over.’
‘Blacking himself?’
‘Yes. Dressing the part so completely. Why did he want someone to think that he was French?’