“I’m sorry, but I’ve got to take it up again. That masked figure that came walking toward the car wearing an overcoat was limping?”
“Yes.”
“When he ran away, he didn’t limp?”
“That’s right.”
“The figure was medium-sized?”
“Well, yes. Rather — I’ve thought that over a lot since then. I was excited you know at the time — but without the overcoat, I think he’d have been rather slender.”
I said, “Okay, think this one over. Could it have been a woman?”
“A woman! Why, the man tried to make me! He—”
“All right,” I interrupted. “That’s part of the gag. Could it have been a woman?”
She frowned, said, “Of course, the overcoat concealed the figure. He was wearing pants and man’s shoes, but—”