It is most strange!" I listened with a sinking heart; for, though his manner was not illuminative of distrust, his argument was disturbing.

Although it was not so direct as the suspicion of the Detective, it seemed to single out Miss Trelawny as different from all others concerned; and in a mystery to be alone is to be suspected, ultimately if not immediately.
I thought it better not to say anything.

In such a case silence is indeed golden; and if I said nothing now I might have less to defend, or explain, or take back later.

I was, therefore, secretly glad that his form of putting his argument did not require any answer from me--for the present, at all events.

Doctor Winchester did not seem to expect any answer--a fact which, when I recognised it, gave my pleasure, I hardly knew why.