But I am really ignorant of all, save what appeared in the papers.

I am the worst person in the world to apply to for information, sir." "Perhaps you are, so far as the crime is concerned.

But there is one question I should like to ask you.

An impertinent one." "What is it ?" demanded the girl, visibly nervous.
"Why do you refuse to marry Mallow ?" "That is very impertinent," said Juliet, controlling herself; "so much so that I refuse to reply." "As a gentleman, I take that answer," said Jennings mildly, "but as a detective I ask again for your reason." "I fail to see what my private affairs have to do with the law." Jennings smiled at this answer and thought of the knife which he had found.

A less cautious man would have produced it at once and have insisted on an explanation.