He admitted that the superintendent was carrying through an unpleasant duty as inoffensively as possible, but the attitude of the village policeman was irritating in the extreme.

Nothing would have tended so effectively to relieve his surcharged feelings as to supply P.C.Robinson then and there with ample material for establishing a charge of assault and battery.
"That is not a remarkable fact, if regarded apart from to-day's tragedy," he said, and there was more than a hint of soul-weariness in his voice.

"Miss Melhuish was a very talented and attractive woman.

I first met her as the outcome of a suggestion that one of my books should be dramatized, a character in the novel being deemed eminently suitable for her special role on the stage.

The idea came to nothing.