“He intended to leave his office shortly after noon, then?”
“Possibly it was a little later than two that he called me up. I don’t remember exactly. But he said he would be home by three or four.”
“And when he did not appear were you not alarmed?”
“No, Mr. Trowbridge was so apt to have unexpected business matters turn up, that I merely supposed that was the case, and thought nothing strange of it. Nor was I surprised when he did not appear at six. I felt sure, then, that some important development in his affairs had kept him down town so late.”
“Miss Trowbridge was greatly alarmed?”
“Yes.”
The superb indifference of Eleanor Black’s manner showed clearly that it was a matter of no moment to her if another had been anxious.
“Have you any suspicion as to who could have done this thing?”
The great black eyes of the witness turned slowly toward the coroner. At the remark about Avice she had looked carelessly in another direction.
“I think not,” she said.