"Why should the man have come to the middle window?"
"By appointment."
"Impossible," said Mrs. Sellars nervously. "In the first place, Martha would have told me had she intended to see anyone, and----"
"Pardon me, no, madam," interrupted the coroner sharply. "The very fact that the deceased sent away Miss Carrol showed that she desired the interview to be a secret one."
"She would not have admitted a man who intended to murder her."
"But she did. No one else could have admitted him, and the fact of the open middle window showed how he was admitted."
"He opened that to throw out the stiletto."
"Probably he did that, but undoubtedly the window was opened before. Mrs. Pentreddle could not have crawled to the front door."
"Martha had so strong a will that she would have crawled to the top of the house if she had made up her mind to. And I say again she never would have let in a man--whoever he was--to murder her, poor dear!"
"I don't believe she expected to be murdered."