"Besides, women don't fall in love with men who are so feeble from illness as the Colonel seems to be.

How can there be the attraction?
She might, of course, want to mother him very keenly.

But that's quite a different thing." He paused, then added in a tone of some anxiety: "I say, you're not trying to mix her up with the murder--if it was a murder ?" "I'm not trying to mix anybody up in it," said Mr.Flexen slowly.

"But I don't mind telling you that it is growing quite a pretty problem, and to solve a problem you must have every factor in it.

You see that the strong point about both Lady Loudwater and Colonel Grey is, on your own showing, that they are uncommonly clever; and only stupid people commit murder--except, of course, once in a blue moon." "But what about these gangs of criminals we sometimes read about, with extraordinarily clever men at the head of them?
Don't they exist ?" said Mr.Manley, in a tone of surprise.
"They exist; but they don't commit murders--not in Europe, at any rate," said Mr.Flexen.