"Perhaps it would do to make a good search of the house?" Fr Verdoux suggested. "If we are here and, so it would seem, to remain here, we ought best, I think, to know where we are." The shy priest of the conference was gone. Fr Verdoux was caught in a mystery, and in his element.
He examined the dust cloths on the furniture in the foyer. Truly they had not been moved for at least several months, judging by the thickness of the layer of dust on them. Indeed, even the floor was coated with dust, interrupted only by various footprints.