The evidence was that the wound might have been self-inflicted," said Mr.Manley.
"Absurd! Lord Loudwater was the last man in the world to commit suicide!" she cried.
"That's purely a matter of individual opinion.

I am of the opinion that a man of his uncontrollable temper was quite likely to commit suicide," he said firmly.

"As for its being absurd, if there is any attempt to prove any one guilty of murdering him on purely circumstantial evidence, that person won't find anything absurd in the theory at all.

In fact, he'll work it for all it's worth.

I think myself that, with Dr.Thornhill's evidence in mind, the police, or the Public Prosecutor, or the Treasury, or whoever it is that decides those things, will never attempt in this case to bring any one to trial for the murder on merely circumstantial evidence." "Do you think not ?" she said in a tone of relief.
"I'm sure of it," said Mr.Manley.