"Then afterwards?"
"No; I don't think so. He was very quiet. But then he was always quiet."
"I see. When did Lamont come and tell you what had happened?"
"On Saturday."
"You knew before then that the man in the queue was Sorrell?"
"No; the description of the man wasn't published in full until Thursday, and I naturally thought that Bert had sailed on Wednesday. I knew that Jerry would have been with him up to the last minute, so I didn't worry. It was only when I saw the description of the man the police wanted that I put the two descriptions together and began to wonder. That was on Saturday."
"And what did you think then?"
"I thought, as I think now, that there was a very bad mistake somewhere."
"Will you tell me what Lamont told you? He has made a statement to us already."
She hesitated a moment and then said, "Well, I can't see that things can be worse than they are," and told him the story Lamont had told her. To the smallest detail it coincided with what he had told Grant and the constable in the train coming south.