“Did you also recognize the coachman who struck you?”

“No.”

“Did you see him at all, so that you would have recognized him if you had seen him?”

“Sure, I saw him—quite well enough to know him again, the next time I see him.”

“And he was a stranger to you?”

“I do not remember that I ever saw him before.”

“Did she—did the woman, whom you believed to be Mercedes, say anything to him when you started toward the carriage?”

“Not a word.”

“Are you sure?”

“I am positive. Why?”