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He met Marryatt on his way upstairs -- Marryatt looking pained, as he always did when bad news went round.
"I must congratulate you on your driving, Reeves. It's all over the Club. But when I think of that poor fellow Davenant -- I wonder now, do you think perhaps the jury will find Davenant was insane? Why do we always assume it's a madman's act to take one's own life, when it's surely a far more desperate thing to take anybody else's? Did you think, from what you saw of Davenant, that he was in mental health?"