Besides, begging your pardon, she's hardly bad enough for a lunatic asylum." "Let us go downstairs, Galloway, if we have seen the whole of the inn," said the chief constable, breaking into this colloquy.

"Time is really getting on." They went downstairs again to the small room they had been shown into when they first entered the inn, Mr.Cromering after despatching the innkeeper for refreshments for the party glanced once more at his watch, and remarked to Colwyn that he was afraid he would have to ask him to drive him in his car back to Durrington without delay.
"Galloway will stay here for the inquest to-morrow," he added.

"But I must get back to Norwich to-night." "It is not necessary to go back to Durrington, to get to Norwich," said Colwyn; "there's a train passes through Heathfield on the branch line, at 5.40." He consulted his own watch as he spoke.

"It's now just four o'clock.

Heathfield cannot be more than six miles away across country.