"No, I couldn't. I might have recognized the Mayor's voice perhaps, if I'd gone closer to the door and listened, but I didn't stay. As soon as I heard—what I have told you of—I went straight back."
"By the same way? To Dr. Wellesley's drawing-room?"
"Yes."
"What happened then?"
"I told Dr. Wellesley that the Mayor had somebody with him and that they appeared to be having high words, and as I didn't want to stop he suggested that I should come again next evening. Then I went home."
"In the same way—by the private door into Piper's Passage?"
"Exactly."
"Did Dr. Wellesley go downstairs with you and let you out?"
"He did."