“No; I wouldn’t look at him. I heard him; that was all.”
“You heard him tell Miss Bostal that he was going to Stroan?”
Here a frightened look passed suddenly across the girl’s face, causing the jurymen, one and all, to look at her more attentively than before.
“Yes.”
The answer was a whisper.
“And, of course, you didn’t notice whether he seemed in his usual health or not?”
“I didn’t notice.”
“Of course not. Then you went back to Colonel Bostal’s house with Miss Bostal?”
“Yes.”
“Did you notice the time at all? Can you tell us what time it was when you reached the house?”