“But it’s false! It isn’t true! I didn’t do it! I was——”
“Yes?”
“I was on that bench all the time, till I went home——”
“Did you see any one, any servant or gardener, perhaps, who can vouch for your story?”
“No—I can’t remember that I did. But, man, alive, how could I get in and out of that room? It has been proved——”
“It has been proved that you could have entered unseen and could have left unseen.”
“But how?”
“Answer this question truthfully. What was Mrs. Stannard doing, when you left her in the Billiard Room?”
“She was sitting on one of the leather seats that are built to the wall.”
“Was she looking at you, as you left?”