"He was asleep, you are sure?"
"I said so."
"He—did not die instantly, did he?"
"No. I know exactly when he died; two minutes after you struck him and fled with a shriek."
"Then surely he could not have known?"
"Known what?"
"
That it was I who—who held the hammer."
"He might not have known it, indeed," Antinea said. "But he did know."
"How?"