“Belder isn’t very busy,” Sellers said. “That appointment business is just a stall, isn’t it — kind of racket to impress callers?”

“Yes.”

“So you went on in to him and told him a Mrs. Cornish was here?”

“She asked me to announce her as Dolly Cornish; said just to say Dolly Cornish.”

“What did Belder do?”

“Why, he said to send her in, said she was a friend of his.”

“Any emotion?”

“I didn’t notice.”

“What happened when they met each other?”

“I don’t know. I wasn’t there.”