“You mean she was holding the revolver in her left hand and also holding her skirt?”
“Yes. The gun was beneath the folds of the dress.”
“Now, was this dress transparent?” Mason asked.
“It might as well have been.”
“But could you see the gun through it?”
“Well... well, I don’t suppose I could, no.”
“In other words,” Mason said, “you didn’t actually see Mrs. Moar take any gun up to the boat deck, and, when she walked past within a very few feet of you, you didn’t see any weapon in her possession, did you?”
“Well,” the witness said, “I know she had the gun. She must have had it.”
“And that’s the only way you know she had it — because you think she must have had it.”
“Well, yes, if you want to put it that way.”