"Yes. I know you did. I met you on the stoop."
"Did you?" said Annandale with marked surprise.
"Why, yes. Don't you remember?"
Annandale passed a hand across his face and sat down.
"Don't you remember?" Orr reiterated.
Annandale shook his head.
"But you remember where you went afterward, don't you? Did you come directly here?"
Annandale made no answer.
"Can't you tell me?" Orr asked. "Or is it that you don't wish to?"
On a mantel opposite the sideboard a clock was ticking. For awhile in the room only that ticking could be heard.