"And supposing--mind you, I'm only supposing--that a witness were to come forward and say that, on the night in question, you could not possibly have seen any such thing, that witness would not be telling the truth?"
"What do yer mean?"
"I should have thought it was sufficiently obvious," said Ronnie gravely; and repeating his question knew, by the very look on the witness's face, that his shot in the dark had found its mark.
"I've told yer all I know," retorted Maggie Peterson stubbornly.
"Possibly more." Ronnie, warming to a subdued chuckle from Spillcroft, ventured one more question. "Tell me, please, what you did after you had--as you say--watched the accused woman go into her cousin's room?"
"Went to bed, of course."
"Then you were in bed by a quarter to ten?"
"I suppose so."
"Not later than ten o'clock, anyway?"
"No."