"Exactly!"
"But don't you see," argued Larose, "if he'd been enraged enough to be in the mood to want to kill him, he would have been much more than suspecting him--he'd have been certain of everything." His voice rose scoffingly. "Then if he were certain, can you imagine him inviting the wretch to his house? What would have been his object? What was there to gain by it?"
Stone made no answer and Larose went on, "No, it all crystallises into this. If his wife had indeed been unfaithful to him there is not the slightest indication that Sir George suspected anything of it. Then, that being so, the motive for his committing the murder is gone and he drops out of the lime-light altogether."
Stone spoke firmly. "We shall go up to Avon Court and ask Sir George a question or two."
Larose nodd
