"I don't know; I don't think so, but I was tired, and he begged me to go upstairs."
"In his usual manner?"
"Yes."
"Not like a man anxious to have you go?"
"No."
"And when did the child come down?"
"Later."
"Not immediately?"
"No; a quarter of an hour or so later."
"Humph! The child was with him then a quarter of an hour before his death?"