"From my mother."
"Your mother and yourself share most items of family interest between you?"
"Naturally we do. We have no secrets from each other."
"Wasn't it your mother who first informed Mr. McCausland that Robert had been disinherited?"
"I don't know."
"Yet you read the papers, you said."
"I must have skipped that item."
"How did Mrs. Arnold know this fact?"
"I don't know."
"You are very rich, Mr. Arnold?"