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"Rapid adjustment of the mental perspective," said Mr. Pulteney, "is an invaluable exercise, especially at my age. But I confess there is a point at which the process becomes confusing. Are we now to understand that Mr. Brinkman, so far from being a murderer, is simply an innocent man with a taste for motoring late at night? I have no doubt there is a satisfactory explanation of it all, but it looks to me as if there had been an absence of straightforwardness on somebody's part."
"Possibly on that of Mr. Eames," said the Bishop. "I have to confess, on his behalf, that he has been concealing something, and to take the blame for his conduct -- if blame attaches to it -- unreservedly upon myself. However, I do not think that any earlier disclosure could have helped forward the cause of justice; and I have lost no time in putting it all before you."