"Yes, as my wife."
"You had no qualms about any anxiety her people might suffer?"
"No. She said she still had a fortnight's holiday to come, and that her people would take it for granted that she was still with her aunt in Larborough. She had told her aunt that she was going home, but had told her people that she was staying on. And as they never wrote to each other it was unlikely that her not being in Larborough would become known to her people."
"Do you remember the date on which you left Larborough?"
"Yes; I picked her up at a coach stop in Mainshill on the afternoon of March the 28th. That was where she would normally have got her bus home."
Kevin left a pause after this piece of information, so that its full significance should have a chance. Robert, listening to the momentary quiet, thought that if the court-room were empty the silence could not be more absolute.
"So you took her with you to Copenhagen. Where did you stay?"
"At the Red Shoes Hotel."
"For how long?"
"A fortnight."