"You are positive?"
"Quite positive. The resemblance is so startling that there is only the barest possibility of my being mistaken."
"Now, as to the hour. You looked at your watch?"
"The incident was so unusual that I instinctively took my watch from my pocket. It was within a minute of three o'clock."
"You are aware that another witness, who will probably be called for the defence, states that she was in Catchpole Square at that hour, that she heard the clock of Saint Michael's Church strike three, and that the door of the house of the deceased was not opened?"
"I am aware of it. She is mistaken."
"Did you hear the clock of St. Michael's Church strike?"
"I did not."
"That is all, Dr. Pye."
Mr. Pallaret then rose and commenced his cross-examination, which had been looked forward to with some eagerness.