Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
It is assumed that Qualtrough wanted to take out an insurance policy for his daughter as a 21st birthday present. It is sometimes wondered why Wallace wouldn't have passed this onto the agent responsible for Allerton but then he stood to make commission on such a deal - something Parry would have known as an enticement perhaps.

Wallace denied being upset that day and in fact when interviewed by the police, the customers he called said he was his normal self (which probably was never too jolly anyway, him being of the stoic type) he even went into one house for a cuppa.
Thanks Ged, Not much of a 21st birthday present....wouldn't go down well today I don't think.

from what i've read his customers seemed to like him despite him not being too jolly.