"God forbid that it should be so.

I have a firm belief that Marian Holbrook lives.
But it is possible to get a person out of the way without the last worst crime of which mankind is capable." "It would seem more natural to suspect the husband than the father, I should imagine," Mr.Medler answered, after a thoughtful pause.
"I cannot see that.

The husband had nothing to gain by his wife's disappearance, and everything to lose." "He might have supposed the father to be dead, and that he would step into the fortune.

He might not know enough of the law of property to be aware of the difficulties attending a succession of that kind.

There is a most extraordinary ignorance of the law of the land prevailing among well-educated Englishmen.