"Yes, sir."
"How was she dressed?"
"She had on a long coat an' a fussed up hat o' Mrs. Riley's."
"And no one else saw them?"
"No, sir. They run down the back-stairs as everybody come up the front."
"She was willing to go with him, then? He wasn't forcing her?"
"Well, you bet he wasn't! She was hangin' right on to him!"
"What was your idea of the whole business?"
"I thought mebbe she done it for a signal to him when to come in."
"Now, Joe, don't you believe that—it being, as you say, done so quick—and you having just seen this shadow which you had taken for Miss Hope's, you might have imagined it was she who came out with this man?"