"
"Have you noticed the other rooms the billiard-room, and library,
and so on?" said Cayley.
"I've only just thought about it while I've been sitting out
here. You live here haven't you ever noticed them?"
Cayley sat considering, with his head on one side.
"It seems rather absurd, you know, but I can't say that I have."
He turned to Bill. "Have you?"
"Good Lord, no. I should never worry about a thing like that."
"I'm sure you wouldn't," laughed Antony. "Well, we can have a
look when we go in. If the other keys are outside, then this one
was probably outside too, and in that case well, it makes it more
interesting."
Cayley said nothing. Bill chewed a piece of grass, and then
said, "Does it make much difference?"
"It makes it more hard to understand what happened in there.
Take your accidental theory and see where you get to. No
instinctive turning of the key now, is there? He's got to open
the door to get it, and opening the door means showing his head
to anybody in the hall--his cousin, for instance, whom he left
there two minutes ago.
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