She refused to take a part, to commit herself to a definite opinion.

Human nature is a mixed matter, and in these cases there are generally faults on both sides.

Mrs.Nevill Tyson had been--certainly--very--indiscreet.

It was indiscreet of her to go on living in that flat all by herself.

Did Miss Batchelor think there was anything in that report about Captain Stanistreet?
Well, if there wasn't something in it you would have thought she would have come back to Thorneytoft; her staying in town looked bad under the circumstances.
Poor Mrs.Nevill Tyson, every circumstance made a link in a chain of evidence whose ends were nowhere.
And, indeed, she was not left very long to herself.
But though Stanistreet was always hanging about Ridgmount Gardens, he was no nearer solving the problem that had perplexed him.