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which is about five minutes' walk.
I left the house at half past seven.
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I promised to take her
a dress pattern that she admired.
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- Och, is this thing necessary?
- An excellent question.
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However, it has been installed at
considerable expense to the taxpayers,
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so let us take advantage of it.
Please continue.
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Well, when I got to my niece's,
I found I'd left the pattern behind.
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So after supper I slipped
back to get it as it was no distance.
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I got back to the house at 25 past 9.
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I let myself in
and went upstairs to my room.
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As I passed the sitting room, I heard the
prisoner in there, talking to Mrs French.
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No, it wasn't me! It wasn't my voice!
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Talking and laughing they were.
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But it was no business of mine,
so I went upstairs to fetch my pattern.
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Now, let us be very exact as to the time.
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You say that you
re-entered the house at 25 past 9?
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Aye. The pattern was on a shelf in my
room next to my clock so I saw the time.
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- And it was 25 past 9.
- Go on, please.
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I went back to my niece. Och,
she was delighted with the pattern. Si...
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Simply delighted. I stayed until 20 to 11,
then I said good night and I come home.
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I went into the sitting room to see
if the mistress wanted anything
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before she went to bed.
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And there she was, dead.
And everything tossed hither and thither.
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Did you really think
that a burglary had been committed?
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My lord, I must protest!
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I will not allow that question
to be answered, Mr Myers.
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Miss McKenzie, were you aware
that Leonard Vole was a married man?
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No, indeed.
And neither was the mistress.
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- Janet!
- My lord, I must object.
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What Mrs French knew or did not know is
pure conjecture on Janet McKenzie's part.
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Let me put it this way.
You formed the opinion
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that Mrs French thought
Leonard Vole was a single man?
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- Have you any facts to support this?
- The books that she ordered.