"Where is her maid, Nora?"
"I let her go out, this evening."
"Then you should not have left the hotel."
"I would not have done so, but for this imperative message from you."
"What was the message?"
"Your wife, or at least a woman claiming to be your wife, came to see me a little after eight o'clock. She said you had arrested the woman who has been sending these threats to my daughter, and that you needed me at once, to make a charge against her at the police station. I naturally came here immediately."
"The woman who told you this—she couldn't have been my wife. Describe her."
"She was slight, small, neatly but not expensively dressed, with light eyes and hair."
"That was not Mrs. Duvall, but it answers very well the description of the woman we are seeking. What did she do, when you left the hotel?"
"I thought she also left."