“Yes.”
“To the best of your knowledge, you have omitted nothing?”
“Nothing.”
“Thank you; that will be all. Cross-examine.”
Mr. Farr advanced leisurely toward the witness box and stood staring thoughtfully for a long moment at its pale occupant. Under those speculative eyes, the sagging shoulders straightened, the chin lifted.
“You were perfectly familiar with the gardener’s cottage, were you not, Mrs. Ives?”
“Perfectly.”
“You remembered even where the lamp stood in the hall?”
“Yes. I used to go there often as a child.”
“Nothing had been changed since then?”