Coming in six weeks' time, or even a month's time, it would be far less likely to make that trouble.
He wondered what it could be that she had done to bring herself under suspicion.

Remembering what she had said of her determination to discuss the halving of her allowance with the dead man, and her remark that she had such a knowledge of his habits that she could make sure of having an interview with him to discuss it, it seemed not unlikely that she had gone to see him on the very night of his murder, and that some one had seen her.

If it were so, he hoped that she would tell him, so that they might together devise some way of preventing harm coming from the accident that the interview had occurred at such an unfortunate hour.

He felt sure that he would be able to devise such a way.

He never blinked the fact of his extreme ingenuity.
He found her strolling in her garden with the anxious frown which had awakened his uneasiness, still on her brow.