"In the hall, just about to go upstairs."
"And Mrs. Pell?"
"In the hall, by the living-room door."
"Why were they in the hall?"
"Mr. and Mrs. Bowen had just left, and the ladies had said good-bye to them at the front door, and then they stood talking to each other a few moments."
"What were they talking about?"
Agnes hesitated, but on further insistence of the coroner she said, "Miss Iris was complaining to Mrs. Pell about her habit of playing tricks."
"Was Miss Clyde angry at her aunt?"
"She sounded so."
"Certainly I was," broke in Iris. "I had stood that foolishness just as long as I could——"