He had decided that Mr.Manley was a sentimentalist, and he knew well the difficulty of dealing with sentimentalists.

Moreover, Mr.Manley was animated by a grudge against the murdered man.

Mr.Flexen could quite conceive that he might presently be regarding perjury as a duty; he had had experience of the queer way in which the mind of the sentimentalist works.
It appeared to him that everything depended on his finding the mysterious woman.
That afternoon Elizabeth Twitcher determined to go to see James Hutchings.

She had not seen him since their interview on the night of the murder.

In the ordinary course she would not have dreamt of going to him after that interview, for it had left them on such a footing that further advances, repentant advances, must come from him.