"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?"