I have come over here this morning to beg of you to let this terrible business rest where it is.
There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that our unhappy brother has ended his own life--all the facts point to it only too clearly--and I particularly desire, for all our sakes, that you do nothing to put your ill-informed suspicions into action.

Let the thing drop." "It is too late," said Mrs.Pendleton decidedly.

"I have already been to the police.

There is a detective from Scotland Yard on his way over from Bodmin." "You might have told me this before and saved my time," said Austin, rising with cold anger.

"In my opinion you have acted most ill-advisedly.
However, it's too late to talk of that.