Her fingers pressed an answer but she said nothing.
Shine came toward them: “Those fellers were lucky who got off this afternoon. I might have gone with them if I’d had the sense.”
Anne answered this time:
“Yes, they were more fortunate than we are.”
Mrs. Cornell, her sobs under control, spoke up:
“But even if we were here they can’t suspect us. We’ve got alibis, we’re all accounted for. We were all in——”
She realized where she was going and stopped. There was a portentous silence. Shine almost shouted, pointing out at the channel:
“The tide’s falling fast. They can’t get into the dock here. How will they make a landing?”
Bassett answered:
“In a cove at the upper end of the island. They’ve a dock there for low water. They have to make a detour, that’s all.”