"Yes. I know that. What did you do?"
"I determined to go over and see Anne Caldershaw."
"And did you?"
"Yes." She looked at me nervously.
"You were at Mootley then, when--when----"
"No," she burst out fiercely. "Not though Aunt Julia swears I was."
"Oh. You did not go to Mootley at all?"
"Yes I did. I arranged to meet Aunt Julia at Anne's house at five o'clock. I got there before that time."
"Then you were at Mootley on the evening of the murder."
"I have never denied it," she said, cresting her head like a snake and looking haughty, "but I do deny that I was in the house when the crime was committed. I was not the woman who ran away with your motor car, whatever Aunt Julia may say."