“You talk very nice,” she responded, pleased.
“But sterner topics now engage us,” he continued. “You are evidently aware of what happened a short time ago?”
“Murder,” she said. “I am. I don’t hold with it.”
“We none of us hold with it,” he assured her. “That is why we seek the murderer. It becomes necessary to ask a few questions, which I know you will answer gladly.”
“I will that. I’ll not be at peace in this house, with a murderer havin’ the run of it. But I’m afraid I can’t help ye much. I been busy in this room all evenin’, for a dinner like that is no joke, nor is washin’ dishes after a picnic, ayether. I’m supposed to have the help of Sing, but like a will-o’-the-wisp he’s been this night, now here, now gone.”
“He’s been in and out occasionally, however?”
“In an’ out is right.”
