“No, I didn’t look at it specially. Yes, I did, though; there was a board with ‘To Let’ on it, up on the railings. The light from the lamp showed it very clearly.”
“That’s the only thing you can remember?”
“Yes,” said Seraphina.
“You said the door was open. Could you see anything of the inside of the house?”
“No, or at least I didn’t notice anything. There might have been some one standing in the hall. I don’t know.”
“Try and remember,” urged Gimblet.
Miss Finner shut her eyes, contracted her brows, and gave herself up to reflection.
“No good,” she remarked, after an interval in which one might have counted twenty.
“Did you notice the carriage which was driving away?”