By the way, where's your wife?
This is a bad thing for her right now.

Come, let's find her and see what state she is in." Together they left the room and entered Kate's door.

As soon as the doctor was busy with her, George slipped back into the closed room, rolled Peter on his back and covered him, in the hope that the blood would settle until it would efface the marks of his work before the Coroner arrived.

By that time the doctor was too busy to care much what happened to Peter Mines; he was a poor old soul better off as he was.

Across Kate's unconscious body he said to George Holt: "I'm going to let the Coroner make what he pleases out of this, solely for your wife's sake.