“Try to recollect. It only happened last night, you know. Miss Bostal says you brought in the tea, brought it into the dining-room. Don’t you remember doing that?”
“Oh, oh, yes!”
“And did you then look at the clock? Do you remember?”
“No, I don’t remember.”
“You found Miss Bostal in the dining-room. What was she doing?”
“She was lighting the fire.”
“Yes. And you—had you been in the kitchen all the time after she left you, until you took the tea into the dining-room?”
“Yes.”
“You had not been outside the house for a moment?”
This question Nell answered promptly: