"Did look."
"And feel in your pocket?"
"Did."
"I suppose you couldn't be satisfied till you'd opened the purse to count the money. You're a perfect Charity Cockloft with your curiosity. And then you went off into one of your dreams, and forgot to clasp the purse. Go look for it right at the spot where you counted the money."
"Didn't count it."
"Well, where you opened the purse in the street."
"Didn't open it in the street."
"The money just crawled out of the purse, did it?"
"Dunno."
The house was searched, the store, the street, but all in vain. Dr. Lively was questioned: Did he take the money from the purse when it was under her pillow? He didn't even know before that the purse had been found. The house had been everywhere securely fastened, and the bed-room door locked.