“To the gardener’s cottage?”

“Yes.”

“Was she there?”

“No.”

“How did you know that she wasn’t there, Mr. Farwell?”

“Because there wasn’t any car, nor any music either.”

There was a surly defiance in Farwell’s tone that the prosecutor blandly ignored.

“Did you go into the cottage?”

“No; it was locked.”

“What did you do then?”