He looked towards Thresk as if all was not quite said.

Harold Hazlewood, to whom the position of a neglected listener was rare and unpalatable, saw an opportunity for intervention.
"The three points are perhaps not very conclusive," he said.
Thresk turned towards him coldly: "I promised to answer such questions as Mr.Pettifer put to me.

I am doing that.

I did not undertake to discuss the value of my answers afterwards." "No, no, quite so," murmured Mr.Hazlewood.

"We are very grateful, I am sure," and he left once more the argument to Pettifer.
"Then I come to the next question, Mr.Thresk.At some moment in this inquiry you of your own account put yourself into communication with Mrs.
Ballantyne's advisers and volunteered your evidence ?" "Yes." "Isn't it strange that the defence did not at the very outset get into communication with you ?" "No," replied Thresk.