"In the club."
"The door steps?"
"No. The lobby."
"He was alone then? I mean—besides yourself was no one with him?"
"No one. The hall porter stood there of course."
"No one joined him afterward?"
"That I cannot say. When I parted from him he was alone."
"You know that Mr. Philip de Mountford was murdered in a taxicab between Shaftesbury Avenue and Hyde Park Corner, soon after nine o'clock?"
"I have heard most of the details of that extraordinary crime.
"And you can throw no light on it at all?"