"No."
"Why not, if you left your wife within, alive and well?"
"I did not wish to disturb her. My purpose was not strong enough to surmount the least difficulty. I was easily deterred from going where I had little wish to be."
"So that you merely went up the stoop and down again at the time Mr. Stone saw you?"
"Yes, and if he had passed a minute sooner he would have seen this: seen me go up, I mean, as well as seen me come down. I did not linger long in the doorway."
"But you did linger there a moment?"
"Yes; long enough to hunt for the keys and get over my astonishment at not finding them."
"Did you notice Mr. Stone going by on Twenty-first Street?"
"No."
"Was it as light as Mr. Stone has said?"