The Black Bag - Scene 22

SCENE 22

In the same deliberate fashion as he had opened and read the cutting, Mr. Dyer folded and returned it to Loveday.

• "May I ask," he said sarcastically, "what you see in that silly hoax to waste your and my valuable time over?"
• "I wanted to know," said Loveday, in the same level tones as before, "if you saw anything in it that might in some way connect this discovery with the robbery at Craigen Court?"

Mr. Dyer stared at her in utter, blank astonishment.

• "When I was a boy," he said sarcastically as before, "I used to play at a game called 'what is my thought like?' Someone would think of something absurd–say the top of the monument–and someone else would hazard a guess that his thought might be–say the toe of his left boot, and that unfortunate individual would have to show the connection between the toe of his left boot and the top of the monument. Miss Brooke, I have no wish to repeat the silly game this evening for your benefit and mine."