“Would you if one had been fired?”

“I don’t think so, not the way it was muffled by the pillow.”

“What did you do?”

“I crossed the street. I tried to look up to the window of my apartment. I couldn’t see anything. The shade was drawn.”

“Then what?”

“I started walking back toward town.”

“At what time?”

“It must have been just before two-thirty. When I had reached the corner, Marilyn Winton drove by. She was in a car with two other people — a man and a woman.”

“You know her?”

“Oh, I know who she is, and we speak when we meet in the hall. Her apartment is almost directly across from mine.”