"And there is something you can do.

I saw you on a bicycle the other day.

Why not give up your teaching for a while, and scour the country round about, trying to get hold of some news about your father's movements that night?
That he won't tell us anything himself is no reason why we shouldn't find out something for ourselves.

He must have been somewhere--someone must have seen him! Why not begin some investigation ?--you know the district.

How does that strike you ?" "I should be only too thankful," she said.