“As little as possible.”
“And how will Rosamund Grant answer when asked to say, on oath, if she told Wilde of his wife’s infidelity?”
“Did she do this?”
“I am certain of it. She went for a walk with Wilde the day following the conversation she overheard between Rankin and Mrs. Wilde. The gardener’s child passed them and remarked that she appeared to be very agitated. I believe she regretted this piece of work and went to make a clean breast of it to Rankin in his room that night. Counsel will be certain to press this and to ask her why she would not give an account of herself. She was frightened of Wilde, of course.”
“It will be a ghastly business,” said Nigel.
“It will be unpleasant, but he is not a suitable type for liberty.”
The train shot them through a plethora of suburban backyards. Alleyn stood up and struggled into his overcoat.
“You are an extraordinary creature,” said Nigel suddenly. “You struck me as being as sensitive as any of us just before you made the arrest. Your nerves seemed to be all anyhow. I should have said you hated the whole game. And now, an hour later, you utter inhuman platitudes about types. You are a rum ’un.”
“Unspeakable juvenile! Is this your manner when interviewing the great? Come and dine with me tomorrow.”
“I say, I’d like to, but I can’t. I’m taking Angela to a show.”
“Keeping company like?”
“You go to hell!”
“Well, here’s Paddington.”
All the characters and events portrayed in this work are fictitious.
A MAN LAY DEAD
A Felony & Mayhem “Vintage” mystery
PUBLISHING HISTORY
First U.K. print edition (Geoffrey Bles): 1934
First U.S. print edition (Sheridan): 1942
Felony & Mayhem print and electronic editions: 2011
Copyright © 1934 by Ngaio Marsh
Copyright © renewed 1970 by Ngaio Marsh
All rights reserved
E-book ISBN: 978-1-934609-95-8
For my father and in memory of my mother
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