That is unusual in a young girl.

　　"Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care forit."

　　"That is unusual in a young girl."

　　"She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She isfour-and twenty."

　　"This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to heralso."

　　"Terrible! She is even more affected than I."

　　"You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?""How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet inhis hands."

　　"I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of thecoronet at all injured?"

　　"Yes, it was twisted."

　　"Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying tostraighten it?"

　　"God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. Butit is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If his purposewere innocent, why did he not say so?"

　　"Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie?His silence appears to me to cut both ways. there are several singularpoints about the case. What did the police think of the noise whichawoke you from your sleep?"

　　"They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing hisbedroom door."

　　"A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door soas to wake a household. What did they say, then, of thedisappearance of these gems?"

　　"They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture inthe hope of finding them."