“Did he go upstairs with the young lady?”
“Yes, sah.”
“When did he leave?”
“I can’t say, sah; I didn’t see him leave.”
“How was that?”
“Well, you see, sah, in de summer, when de house is mos’ empty, we’s not so partic’lar as we are in de winter, and we takes turn and turn about oftener, ’specially in de ebenin’.”
“I see,” said the Coroner.
“An’ so dat ebenin I goes off at half-past eight and Joe he run de elevator till eleben.”
“Did any one call on Miss Derwent yesterday?”
“I see nobody, sah.”