Does it seem strange to you that Ronald should have come straight to this inn and committed a murder after making that scene at the hotel?
Do you think it suggests that Ronald has, well--impulses of violence, let us say ?" Superintendent Galloway poured himself out another glass of old brandy and sipped it deliberately, watching the detective cautiously between the sips.
Colwyn was silent for a moment.

He was quick to comprehend the double-barrelled motive which underlay the superintendent's question, and he had no intention of letting the police officer pump him for his own ends.
"Sir Henry Durwood would be better able to answer that question than I," he said.
"I asked him when we were driving over here this afternoon, but he shut up like an oyster--you know what these professional men are, with their stiff-and-starched ideas of etiquette," grumbled the superintendent.
A flicker of amusement showed in Colwyn's eyes.

Really the superintendent was easily drawn, for an East Anglian countryman.

"After all, it is only Sir Henry Durwood's opinion that Ronald intended violence at the _Grand_," he said.

"Sir Henry did not give him the opportunity to carry out his intention--if he had such an intention." "Exactly my opinion," exclaimed Superintendent Galloway, eagerly rising to the fly.