“My teeth were chattering but—”
“Had they chattered before?”
“They may have. I only noticed it then; but—”
“The facts, Miss Cumberland. Your teeth chattered while you were passing through the hall. Did this keep up after you entered the room where you found the telephone?”
“I don’t remember; I was almost insensible.”
“You don’t remember that they did?”
“No, sir.”
“But you do remember having shut the door behind you?”
“Yes.”
An open window in the hall! That was what he was trying to prove—open at this time. From the expression of such faces of the jury as I could see, I think he had proved it. The next point he made was in the same line. Had she, in all the time she was in the building, heard any noises she could not account for?