"And you yourself, Monsieur,—you have moved no object—no drapery—no chair?"
"No, Madame. Nothing. I climbed upon the couch to look out of the window. That is all."
She nodded and passed around the lay figure which she was regarding with a new interest.
"And the gray drapery on the shoulder of the lay figure—you say it has not been touched?"
Monsieur Matthieu looked up with a smile.
"I examined the figure carefully, Madame. I may have raised the drapery—but I restored it as I found it."
"Then things are not precisely as they were," she said keenly.
"No, Madame. Not the gray drapery," said Matthieu amusedly.
"You did not touch the bolero jacket?"
"No, Madame."