\"It's so simple,\" she said. \"If Whittall had plotted to shoot his wife, he would have shot her with her own gun, wouldn't he? And then we never would have known.\"
I looked at her in silence. Why, of course! My theory went down like a house of cards.
\"No,\" she went on gravely, \"here's the best part of the day gone, and we're almost where we were yesterday evening...Well, not quite. Because Whittall told one little lie, which will appear later.\"
\"It's so simple,\" she said. \"If Whittall had plotted to shoot his wife, he would have shot her with her own gun, wouldn't he? And then we never would have known.\"
I looked at her in silence. Why, of course! My theory went down like a house of cards.
\"No,\" she went on gravely, \"here's the best part of the day gone, and we're almost where we were yesterday evening...Well, not quite. Because Whittall told one little lie, which will appear later.\"
