“You assumed Henri to be Count Charlier?”
“I had no other construction to put upon the words.”
“You thought the gentleman was in Miss Carrington’s room?”
“I couldn’t think that! And yet, it sounded as if she were speaking to him, not of him.”
“This is a very strange story, Miss Frayne. Have you mentioned these things you overheard to any one before this?”
“No. I have thought them over, and concluded it was best to tell the story first to you.”
“And quite right. It is, then, your opinion that there was another person in Miss Carrington’s room, to whom she was speaking?”
“It seemed so to me.”
“But you did not hear this other person’s voice?”
Anita paused a moment and then said: “Not distinctly.”