“On the windward side, yes. However, it wasn’t rolling heavily enough so passengers couldn’t go out in roped-off areas on the lee side. All doors on the weather side had been locked, and the exposed portions of the lee decks were roped off.”
“Shortly after nine o’clock, did you have occasion to go to the cabin of the defendant?”
“I did.”
“Who was present at the time?”
“The Purser, the defendant, Mrs. Moar, Mr. Perry Mason, Miss Della Street, Miss Belle Newberry, the daughter of Mrs. Moar.
“Now then, at that time and place,” Scudder said, “did the defendant make any statement as to when she had last seen her husband?”
“She did.”
“What did she say?”
“Just a moment, your Honor,” Mason said, getting to his feet, “the question is objected to as incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial, and no proper foundation laid.”
Judge Romley stared over his glasses at Perry Mason. “I’m not certain I understand the objection, particularly the part about no proper foundation having been laid.”