“We were old friends.”
“Did you hear any sound in Mr. Vail’s cabin that night?”
“None. But, as I say, I was—ill. I might not have noticed.”
“Did you leave your cabin that night of August 11 or early morning of the 12th?”
“Not that I remember.”
“The steersman has testified to seeing you, without your coat, in the chart-room, at two o’clock. Were you there?”
“I may have been—I think not.”
“Why do you say you ‘may have been—I think not’?”
“I was ill. The next day I was delirious. I remember almost nothing of that time.”
“Did you know the woman Karen Hansen?”