"No one else was in the library when you spoke to the doctor regarding the key?"
"No one."
"Was there a light in the hallway while you sat at the door?"
"There was."
"Should you have seen any one entering the library?"
"I should. To go into that room he would first have to come through the hall."
"There were no visitors in the house at any time during the evening?"
"No," said Nanon. "I should have heard them ring, even if some one else had admitted them."
Ashton-Kirk turned to the girl.