24/37 Then you may think--but that's impossible. Mrs.Octagon, who hated Selina Loach, might have struck the blow, but there was absolutely no proof of this. "Tell me what you will, my dear," he said, "so long as you don't believe me guilty." "I don't--I don't--really I don't. I picked up the knife and left the room after ten minutes. I stole up the stairs and shut the door so quietly that no one heard. |