“After one?”

“Later.”

“How do you know that it was later?”

“I don’t know—because the sky was getting lighter, I suppose.”

“You mean that dawn was breaking?”

“I suppose so.”

“You are telling us that you drove about until dawn?”

“I am telling you that I don’t remember what I did; it was all a nightmare.”

“Mr. Bellamy, why didn’t you go home to see whether your wife had returned?”

For the first time the eyes fixed on the prosecutor wavered. “What?”