“It would have been difficult,” she finally conceded: “but a person with long fingers might have got hold of it all right. The bottles in front and around it were not very large. Much of the same size as the one you just showed us.”
“Then in your opinion this could have been done?”
(I heard afterwards that it had been done by one of the police operatives.)
“It could have been done.”
Almost doggedly she said it.
“Without making much noise?”
“Without making any if the person doing it knew exactly where the phial was to be found.”
Not doggedly now, but incisively.
“And how many of the household, to your definite knowledge, did?”
“Three, besides myself. Miss Orpha, Mr. Edgar and Mr. Quenton, all of whom shared my nursing.”