"Let us be quite clear about this," Dominey insisted. "If the body should ever be found, am I liable, after all these years, to be indicted for manslaughter?"
"I think you may make your mind quite at ease," the lawyer assured him. "In the first place, I don't think you would ever be indicted."
"And in the second?"
"There isn't a human being in that part of Norfolk would ever believe that the body of man or beast, left within the shadow of the Black Wood, would ever be seen or heard of again!"