“Well, it looks like it. Why did you come here in such unseemly haste?”
“I came here,” she said, “because I wanted to get out of the state so Walter couldn’t serve any divorce papers on me. I thought I could come to Reno and file a divorce case of my own. After I got here, I found out I couldn’t do it until I’d had six weeks’ residence. But I didn’t want Walter to know where I was for a while because I was afraid he’d kill me. So this suited me all right.”
“And Driscoll came here to be with you?”
“Yes.”
“And why did you come here, Rita?”
“To bring some of the things Rossy needed.”
“And you had to charter an airplane to do it?”
“Well,” she said, “I wanted to tell Rossy that everything had worked like a charm; that I’d fooled Mrs. Snoops and that you’d agreed to represent her, and that she was to get in touch with you. I thought perhaps she could telephone you and arrange for an appointment. She could fly in and fly out and Walter wouldn’t be any the wiser.”
“You didn’t go into that upstairs bedroom while you were in the house?” Mason asked.
“Not into Walter’s bedroom, no. Rossy had left the dress on the bed in her room. I ran up to her room, changed into her dress, came down, caught the canary, put on an act for Mrs. Snoops, packed some things for Rossy, and took them with me when I left the house. I sent some other things by express.”