She told them that she had not locked the door at the end of the wing and that she had been in her room from about half past six until after the gong rang. At a quarter past seven her husband had sent for Helen Stokes to help her dress.
“Just after the gong rang,” Bernard interjected, “you heard a scream, didn’t you?”
“Yes, Mr. Bernard. We both heard it, Helen Stokes and I. It startled us.”
She went on to tell them how she had hurried downstairs with Helen and come up again to summon her husband. He was in the bathroom drying himself and had dressed quickly and gone down to take charge. She had waited and gone down with him. She had seen no one in the halls on her way back and forth.
Landis asked her about the library door. She was sure it had been open and back against the wall when she and her husband passed through the library on their way to their rooms. As to the Japanese bow she had never noticed it, either in the library or anywhere else in the house.
The rest of Mrs. Graham’s account merely verified that of the others. After dinner in the dining-room she had gone back to her room to wait for her husband who had joined her there a few minutes ago.
“Let’s go back a bit,” Bernard rumbled. “Didn’t you go for a ride and a sail with Harrison last Sunday?”
“Yes, I did,” she admitted in surprise.
“Was he nice to you?”
“Yes, very!”