“Would you have seen her if she went?”
“Yes.” He blinked, and his Adam’s apple jumped a couple of notches. “My room overlooks
the front entrance.”
“Are you sure she didn’t come out during the past ten minutes?”
No, he couldn’t be sure about that. He had been cooking his lunch.
We went down the long corridor into the cul-de-sac and into Nurse Gurney’s apartment.
We went into each room, but she still wasn’t in any of them.
“Not there,” I said. “How else could she have left the building without using the front entrance?”
After staring blankly at the wall, he said there was no other way out.
I poked a finger towards the opposite apartment.