“No.”
“You’re absolutely certain?”
“Yes.”
“You didn’t pick up anything in your stateroom, other than the raincoat and the beret?”
“Mr. Mason, I fail to see what that has to do...”
“Did you pick up anything else in your stateroom?”
“That’s none of your business.”
Judge Romley swung around in his chair to frown down at the witness and said austerely, “The witness will confine herself to respectful answers to Counsel’s questions. The question was whether you picked up anything else in your stateroom. Did you or didn’t you?”
“No,” Aileen Fell snapped.
“Now,” Mason said, “going back to what you saw when you were on deck You have stated, I believe, that Mr. Moar climbed up the open stairway to the boat deck.”