We Can't Have Everything: A Novel

by Rupert Hughes

Finally Beattie said, “You say you left the fair corespondent alone in the hotel parlor?”

“I did.”

“All alone?”

“Yes.”

“And you went out into the night, as the saying is?”

“Yes.”

“But you testified that it was raining.”

“It was.”

“You went out into the rain?”

“Yes.”