“You went to sleep immediately?”

“Yes, monsieur.”

“Breakfast was just as usual the next morning?”

“As usual—yes.”

“At what time?”

“At nine, as on all Sundays. Mrs. Patrick Ives have hers at half-past nine, when she gets home from church.”

“Nothing unusual in that?”

“Oh, no; on the contrary, that is her habit.”

“And after breakfast, nothing unusual occurred?”

“I do not know whether you call it unusual, but after breakfast, yes, something occurred.”