I said, “Oh.”
“She was coming in around three o’clock in the morning,” Hale said.
“Two-thirty,” Marilyn corrected.
Hale frowned. “Why, I thought you told me it was somewhere between two-thirty and three.”
“No. I looked at my watch. It must have happened just a second or two after two-thirty.”
“Wrist watch?” Hale asked.
“Yes.”
He reached across the table, took her wrist in his hand, and looked at the diamond-studded watch.
“My, what a beauty!”
“Isn’t it?”