"I finally left the club soon after nine, but I did not again see Mr. Philip de Mountford alive."
"The deceased suggested that you should come with him then and there to see Lord Radclyffe at Grosvenor Square; he hailed a taxicab and you entered it with him," insisted the coroner with sudden, slow emphasis.
"I last saw Mr. Philip de Mountford alive in the lobby of the Veterans' Club," reiterated Luke calmly, "soon after nine o'clock."
"He overtook you in the street outside the club?"
"It is not true."
"And hailed a cab?"
"He may have done so, but not in my company."
"You entered the cab with him, and he told the driver to follow along Piccadilly."
"He may have done so," once more reiterated Luke in the same calm and even voice, "but not in my company."
"You parted from him in the lobby of the club?"