“Who were the others?”
“An actress-girl there—a Miss Lang. She was the only one.”
“Did you see them separately or together?”
“Separately.”
“And then where did you go?”
“Back to Mr. Woodman’s office. I told him I had lost the stick, and thought I must have left it there. He had a look, but it wasn’t there. He said I must have left it in the taxi, and I supposed I had.”
“When did you notice the loss?”
“On leaving the theatre.”
“So you might have left the stick there, or in the taxi, or at Mr. Woodman’s?”
“Yes. If you found it in Prinsep’s room, I suppose he must have found it in the theatre, and taken it up to his room.”