“No. I am always a heavy sleeper, besides which I had had a very fatiguing day; a Cabinet meeting in the morning; and I had also been detained at the Department by pressure of business until six o’clock that evening.”
“Were your doors and windows securely fastened?”
“Wilkins attends to that. I did not put up the night-latch on the front door because I knew Beatrice had to come in with her latch key.”
“How did you find the house lighted on your return?”
“Why, as is usual at that time of night when we are not entertaining. All the rooms were in darkness; the only lights being in the front and upper halls—they were turned down low.”
“In regard to Wilkins—”
“I would trust him as I would myself,” interrupted the Attorney General. “He has lived first with my father and then with me for over twenty years.”
“And your other servants?”
“I have every confidence in them. The cook, second man, and chambermaids have been in my employ for at least five years.”
“And Mrs. Trevor’s personal maid?”