“I daresay it would.”
“You know it would. Now be careful as to your statements, Mrs. Pepperill. You are quite sure it would have burnt for three-quarters of an hour, if not an hour?”
“Perhaps’I cannot say.”
“You can say it would have lasted three-quarters, but are not sure it would last an hour?”
“I suppose so.”
“It is not the way of candles, like legs of pork, to run away of themselves, is it?”
“I don’t understand you, sir!”
“I mean, that if you put a candle into a lantern, it will remain in the lantern till it is burnt out.”
“Unless someone takes it out.”
“Exactly! and when the lantern was brought back by Kate Quarm, was the candle there?”