“Yes.”
“According to your own testimony, Doctor, the man could have died at one minute past twelve, noon.”
“That’s right.”
“He could have died at noon?”
“Yes, sir.”
“But he couldn’t have met his death at eleven fifty-nine?”
“Oh, I say,” Dr. Hubert said, “that’s rather an unfair way of putting it.”
“I don’t think so,” Mason said.
“Well, yes, of course,” Dr. Hubert said, somewhat testily, “if you’re going to split hairs that fine, if the man could have died at twelve o’clock, he could also have died at eleven fifty-nine. I don’t think he did, but he could have.”
“How about eleven forty-five?”