(One could imagine Mark
continually gloating over that secret passage.) Suppose Cayley
there, with the body at his feet, feeling already the rope round
his neck; his mind darting this way and that in frantic search
for a way of escape; and suppose that suddenly and irrelevantly
he remembers that Robert is coming to the house at three o'clock
that afternoon--automatically he looks at his watch--in half an
hour's time .... In half an hour's time. He must think of
something quickly, quickly. Shall he bury the body in the
passage and let it be thought that Mark ran away, frightened at
the mere thought of his brother's arrival? But there was the
evidence of the breakfast table. Mark had seemed annoyed at this
resurrection of the black sheep, but certainly not frightened.
No; that was much too thin a story. But suppose Mark had
actually seen his brother and had a quarrel with him; suppose it
could be made to look as if Robert had killed Mark--
Antony pictured to himself Cayley in the passage, standing over
the dead body of his cousin, and working it out.
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