"Yes."
"Did he seem a capable person?"
"Exactly what do you mean?"
"Would he be likely to execute a purpose well, Harriet—either a purpose of his own, or one in which he had been instructed?"
"He seemed an animal sort of person, small, strong, and not particularly intelligent. It seems hard for me to remember more about him than that."
"That is interesting."
"What?"
"That it is hard for you to remember him very well."
"Why, Father?"
Her father did not answer. "The other men in the motor?" he asked.