“Want your help,” explained Landis cordially. “Want to know whether you remember exactly where you were when you heard Susan scream tonight?”
“I told you, I think. I was in the bathroom.”
“I remember, now! And the door was open into your bedroom here. Don’t remember exactly what you were doing, do you?”
Allen hesitated.
“I was dressing, I think.”
“Not your evening clothes—in the bathroom?”
“No. I was getting into some clean underwear.”
“Anita Harrison tells us that she was talking to you at the time. Was she in the bedroom or the bathroom?”
Allen jumped out of bed.
“That’s a lie!”