“Always, I think. She used to work out there for an hour or so until it got dark, because that was the coolest part of the day.”
“Was the rose garden visible from the study?”
“Quite clearly. A window overlooked the little paved terrace that led down into the rose garden.”
“So that it would have been simple for Mrs. Ives to verify whether Mrs. Daniel Ives was in the garden?”
“Oh, quite.”
“Where were the servants apt to be at that time?”
“They would be having their dinner in the back part of the house—they dined after the family.”
“What about Mr. Patrick Ives?”
“Mrs. Ives knew that he had gone upstairs. He told me that she had been helping him to fasten the little pennant on in the study just before he came up.”
“And she thought that you were upstairs, too, didn’t she?”