She left the questions now to Harold Hazlewood, and Pettifer had spoken with so much hesitation that Harold Hazlewood could not but ask them.
"You are making reservations, Robert ?" Pettifer shrugged his shoulders.
"I think we have a right to know them," Hazlewood insisted.

"You are a solicitor with a great business and consequently a wide experience." "Not of criminal cases, Hazlewood.

I bring no more authority to judge them than any other man." "Still you have formed an opinion.

Please let me have it," and Mr.
Hazlewood sat down again and crossed his knees.

But a little impatience was now audible in his voice.
"An opinion is too strong a word," replied Pettifer guardedly.