"His connection with the affair seemed to consist of a series of coincidences.

The law does not look favourably upon coincidences!" "But, after all," the Colonel remarked, "he scarcely knew the fellow! Just nodded to him on the stairs, and that sort of thing.

Why, there isn't a shadow of a motive!" "We can't be sure of that, Colonel," Heneage remarked quietly.

"I wonder how much we really know of the inner lives of even our closest friends?
I fancy that we should be surprised if we realized our ignorance!" The Colonel stroked his grey moustache thoughtfully.
"That may be true," he said, "of a good many of us.

Wrayson, however, never struck me as being a particularly secretive sort of chap." "Unfortunately, that counts for very little," Heneage declared.