POLICEMAN (with professional firmness). It’s agin the regulations. A party in the neighbouring skylight complains.
BODIE (putting out the light). If that will do for to-night, I’ll have the window boarded up.
POLICEMAN. Anything so long as it obscures the illumination.
BODIE (irritated). Shuts out the light.
POLICEMAN (determinedly). Obscures the illumination.
BODIE (on reflection). I remember now, I did have that window boarded up.
POLICEMAN (who has himself a pretty vein of sarcasm). I don’t see the boards.
BODIE. Nor do I see the boards. (Pondering.) Can she have boned them?
POLICEMAN. She? (He is at once aware that it has become a more difficult case.)
BODIE. You are right. She is scrupulously honest, and if she took the boards we may be sure that I said she could have them. But that only adds to the mystery.