“Well, what’s wrong with that?”
“Suppose she hadn’t gone out?”
“Then she’d have heard the shot.”
“Would she?”
“Of course, she would.”
“But suppose she hadn’t?”
“I don’t see what you’re getting at.”
“If she hadn’t,” I said, “you’d have tried to find out why, wouldn’t you?”
“Naturally.”
I said, “The body was found in an apartment. The people in the adjoining apartment had been out from eight-fifty to nine-twenty. This made it very nice for you. You were able to narrow the crime down to a thirty-minute interval and start asking questions, accordingly. Well, if a woman had killed him, that would have been all right.”