Charlotte. Well, I told you he’d been drinking something that had spirits of nitrogen in it.
The Detective. Spirits of nitrogen!
Charlotte. That’s what the man said. It was sympathetic gin that this man had persuaded Jerry into buying.
The Detective. Yes.
Charlotte. And he’d been talking all evening about all the things he could have done if I hadn’t stood in his way. He had some examination he’d just taken.
Doris [explaining]. A psychical examination.
The Detective [wisely]. I see.
Charlotte. And my sister came over with the man she’s going to marry, and she came up to see me, and when she came down Jerry was asleep in his chair. Well, I didn’t go down. I wish I had now. And my sister here and her fellow went away. Then I went to bed, and it seems to me I could hear Jerry talking to himself in his sleep all night. I woke up about twelve, and he was saying something loud, and I told him to shut the door, because I could smell that awful sympathetic gin way up-stairs.
The Detective. Yes.
Charlotte. And that’s all. When I came down next morning at seven, he was gone.