"Rather."
"Just when was it committed?"
"During what they call a dark change in the first act."
"You mean the necklace was on before that change and gone when the lights were turned up again?"
"Precisely."
"And the position and actions of this man were suspicious to you?"
"Extremely so."
"In what way?"
"In different ways."
"He had crowded suspiciously close to the wearer of the necklace?"