"What's that?"
"Burgled. Feloniously entered, and important secret papers unlawfully abstracted from. Jill Trelawney, dossier of, subsection M 3879 xxi ( b )…. Incidentally, that's an exaggeration. Give the police some credit. The burglary theory was discarded after the first five minutes, as a matter of fact, and the crime is now held to have been an inside job, carried out by some corrupt official in the pay of the Saint."
"When was this?"
"Night before last."
"When you were here?"
"Exactly. My alibi is perfect."
"You left at midnight?"
"Not of my own free will."
She smiled.
"But you said you had an appointment?"