“No. I’m certain he didn’t.”
Sir Patrick returned to the memorandum.
“‘He said at dinner, before the landlady and the waiter, I take these rooms for my wife. He made her say he was her husband, at the same time.’ Was that done jocosely, Mr. Delamayn—either by the lady or the gentleman?”
“No. It was done in downright earnest.”
“You mean it was done to look like earnest, and so to deceive the landlady and the waiter?”
“Yes.”
Sir Patrick returned to the memorandum.
“‘After that, he stopped all night.’ Stopped in the rooms he had taken for himself and his wife?”
“Yes.”
“And what happened the next day?”