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Freda was so easily led by kindness that when, not heeding her passionate outburst, Crispin pushed her gently out of the room, she made no protest either by word or action. He left her alone on the landing while he went back to get a light, and when he rejoined her, it was with a smile of good-humoured tolerance on his rugged face.
"So you think I murdered your father, do you, eh? " he said, as he turned the key in the lock and then put it in his pocket.