"And what did Minna say to that?" asked the coroner.
"She was still more angry, because Moses Cohen is a smart, good-looking young man, while Petrofsky is not much to look at. Besides, Miriam did not like Petrofsky; he had been rude to her, and she had made her father send him away from the house. So they were not friends, and it was just after that that the trouble came."
"The trouble?"
"I mean about Moses Cohen. Miriam is a very passionate girl, and she was furiously jealous of Minna, so when Petrofsky annoyed her by taunting her about Moses Cohen and Minna, she lost her temper, and said dreadful things about both of them."
"As, for instance—?"
"She said that she would kill them both, and that she would like to cut Minna's throat."
"When was this?"
"It was the day before the murder."
"Who heard her say these things besides you?"
"Another lodger named Edith Bryant and Petrofsky. We were all standing in the hall at the time."