And he [Fen] rushed out of the room and returned a minute later with his wife. After she had greeted the Inspector with a slow, pleasant smile, Fen seized up the gun and handed it to her, saying:
"Dolly, would you mind committing suicide for a moment?"
"Certainly." Mrs Fen remained unpertubred at this alarming request, and took the gun in her right hand, with her forefinger on her trigger; then she pointed it at her right temple.
"There!" said Fen triumphantly.
"Shall I pull the trigger?" asked Mrs Fen.
"By all means," he said absently, but Sir Richard surged up from his chair crying hoarsely: "Don´t! It´s loaded!" ans snatched the gun away from her. She smiled at him. "Thank you, Sir Richard," she said benignly, "but Gervase is hopelessly forgetful, and I shouldn´t have dreamed of doing such a thing. Is that all I can do for you gentleman?"
Dolly and Gervase seem to be a match made in heaven. I think I got the wrong first impression about Fen. Now that I have spend some more time with him, I think I´m going to like him after all.
FYI, Fen didn´t try to kill his wife, he just wanted to prove a point.
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