Excerpt from Manslaughter The knowledge that he was interrupting a discus sion did not hurry Morson any more than the faintest curios1ty delayed him. He brushed up the hearth, turned a displaced chair, collected the cups on his tray and left the room at exactly the same pace at which he had entered it. He had known many scenes in his day. As soon as the door closed behind him Miss Beni nett said: course, if you meant you don't want me to ask my friends to your house you are perfectly within your rights, but I could not stay with you, Lydia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.