Mr.Carrington urged strongly that full prominence should be given to the fact that the wound might have been self-inflicted, and the Coroner promised that this should be done.
When the Coroner had left them the lawyer said to Mr.Flexen: "In the case of a man like the late Lord Loudwater, you can't be too careful, you know.

Really, it would be better if the jury brought in a verdict of suicide.

A suicide in a family is always better than a murder." "H'm! You could hardly expect me to rest content with such a verdict," said Mr.Flexen.

"Not, I mean, on the evidence." "Oh, no; I shouldn't," said Mr.Carrington.

"All I want to avoid is a lot of quite unnecessary painful scandal, which won't lead to anything of use to you, about innocent people connected with my late client.