“No, sir, we had not.”

“But Miss Langdon’s voice was heard in a highly pitched and exciting key talking to you in here?”

“Miss Langdon was mistress of her own voice. I repeat, we had no quarrel.”

“What was she saying to you while she was so excited?”

“I surely cannot tell you.”

“Why?”

“It concerned only herself, and she is dead. Her affairs are sacred so far as I am concerned.”

“You left the building with your lady visitor?”

“Yes.”

“Where did you take her?”