“And the siphon and the glass?”
“Yes.”
“Just as you had put them the night before?”
“Yes.”
“Now here is the bottle of whisky that was found on the table by Sir Philip’s side”—Pepster produced it from a bag he had been hitherto carefully guarding—“is that the bottle from which you gave your employer a drink at dinner and which you left with him at night?”
“Yes, sir.”
“How do you identify it?”
“It’s Lambert’s Blue Label, sir.”
“But that is a popular brand, isn’t it?”
“Oh, yes, I believe it is, sir.”