He looked at them and seemed to think about something. Then, he added, “She probably thought she’d be admired if she’d gone out with an older man, possibly with a certain material situation... I don’t know, I’m just saying.”
“We’ve heard she left with Peter, the boy who worked for you before,” James intervened.
“I heard that too, but it’s odd, that’s what I think,” he said, scratching his scalp. “That boy wasn’t for her.”
He saw the policemen seemed doubtful. He thought he should explain better.
“For one, he was too young for her, only twenty. He used to follow her everywhere with puppy eyes, I know. That doesn’t mean she felt the same. When I saw him like that, I told him the girl was just playing with him, fooling around, you know, but I don’t think he believed me — he was reeled in.
