"What did you find?"
"In the ruins of the library, among a lot of daybree, I found the body of the deceased."
"Did you find anything else?"
"Yessir. I found bits of a burned-up bedstead — coil springs and suchlike."
"What deductions did you make from the position of the body and the burned fragments of the bedstead?"
"Well, sir, I come to the conclusion that they'd dropped through the ceiling from one of the rooms above."
The coroner rubbed his chin.
"I see. You came to the conclusion that the bed, with the deceased in it, had dropped through the ceiling from one of the rooms above the library when the floor collapsed in the fire."
"Yessir."
"That seems quite plain. Did you find anything to suggest what might have been the cause of the fire?"