Henry had made no comment, neither had Horace.

Both had set, with gloomy, shocked faces, entirely still.

But Sylvia, when she entered, forced the situation.
"Why should she kill a steady boarder, much as she needed one ?" she queried.
And Horace responded at once.

"There is no possible motive," he said.
"The arrest is a mere farce.

It will surely prove so." Then Henry spoke.