It wouldn't merely look like a trap, it would be one.

It wouldn't be at all a pretty thing to do, but there's this marriage!" "No, I couldn't do it," said Hazlewood.
"Very well.

There's no more to be said." Pettifer himself had no liking for the plan.

It had been his intention originally to let Hazlewood know that if he wished to get into communication with Thresk there was a means by which he could do it.

But the fact of Dick's engagement had carried him still further, and now that he had read the evidence of the trial carefully there was a real anxiety in his mind.