"She had. You understood what kind of person she was?"
"Perfectly; she made me understand."
"And I dare say she told you one or two things about me."
"She did--one or two; but we're coming to that presently. I want you first to explain to me how you got Mr. Draycott out of the house that night."
"I was rushing off to get something to wrap him in when I met you. I heard you and Reith go into that room, and I heard you both go out--I was outside the window. Directly you left it, I opened the window, picked up Draycott, carried him out, closed the window again--and it was done."
"I see--you call that done. But how did you manage to get him away from the neighbourhood of the house?"
"There was a motor-car a little way along the path, about as silent a one as there is made; I put him in that and off I went."
"Nothing could be simpler, could it? But why did you trouble to take him at all? What affair was he of yours? It wasn't as though he had treated you very nicely."
"Don't you see that it was the chance of my life?"
"The chance of your life? Good gracious! How?"