After an interval he said-- "Do you suspect Thalassa as well ?" The detective looked at him with a cautious air: "Why do you ask that ?" he said, with some restraint in his tone.
"It might account ...

for certain things." Barrant shook his head in a way which was more noncommittal than negative.
He wanted to ascertain what the lawyer thought, but he was not prepared to reveal all his own thoughts in return.
"Do you think that Robert Turold invented this story about his marriage ?" he asked suddenly.
"For what purpose ?" "He did not want his daughter to succeed him in the title.

His announcement about the previous marriage strikes me as just a little too opportune.

Where are the proofs ?" "You would not talk like that if you had known Robert Turold," said the lawyer, turning away from the window.

"He was too anxious to gain the title to jeopardize the succession by concocting a story of a false marriage.