‘I have been interviewed by the police many times, messieurs. I think it hardly likely that I can help you, since I have not been able to help them.’
‘Madame, it is possible that I shall not ask you quite the same questions. To begin with, of what did you talk together, you and M. Halliday?’
She looked a trifle surprised.
‘But of his work! His work, and also mine.’
‘Did he mention to you the theories he had embodied recently in his paper read before the British Association?’