Mason smiled. “I want to put it that way, Miss Fell.”

Her mouth was a thin, straight line. Her eyes blazed indignantly.

“Now, when you were half way up the stairs, you heard a shot?”

“Yes.”

“And when you arrived on deck, you saw Mrs. Moar standing over the unconscious form of her husband?”

“Lifeless form,” the witness said.

“Ah,” Mason observed blandly, “then it was a lifeless figure?”

“Yes.”

“You’re certain of that?”

“Yes.”