“I did not,” said Pauline, looking straight at the Coroner.
“That is all,” said Scofield, briefly, and the next witness was called.
This was the maid, Estelle. Her eyes were red with weeping, but she was not hysterical now, or incoherent. She answered tersely questions as to Miss Carrington’s habits and as to her words and actions during the maid’s last interview with her.
“I left her at about quarter of one,” the witness deposed; “I had given her the Oriental negligée, of which she is fond. I offered to take down her hair and put away her jewels, but she declined those services, and bade me leave her.”
“She was wearing, when you left her, only the jewels she had worn during the evening?”
“Only those, sir. When I changed her evening gown for the boudoir robe, she bade me replace such jewels as I had already taken off her. She kept on her rings, bracelets and her long rope of pearls while I changed her costume.”
“And then she dismissed you for the night?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where was she then? Sitting before the mirror?”
“No, sir. She stood in the middle of the floor.”