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Alec stared incredulously. "Back into the house? But -- but what on earth would he want to be going back into the house for?"
"Ah, now you're asking me something. I haven't the least idea. I don't even know that he was going back into the house. All I say is that that is the only inference I can draw from the fact of these pieces of vase being where they are. It's possibly quite wrong."