“There was no light.”
“But you fortunately remembered that this lamp was in the hall?”
“Fortunately?” repeated Susan Ives slowly, “I remembered that there was a lamp in the hall.”
“How long has it been since you were at Orchards?”
“I have not been there since my marriage—not for seven years.”
“How long since you were in the cottage?”
“I’m not sure—possibly a year or so before that.”
“Were you a child nine years ago?”
“A child? I was over twenty.”
“I thought you told us that it was as a child that you went to the cottage.”