The presumption of guilt would fall upon her.

There would be proof that she ran hurriedly from the room and sprang into a motor-car of her own free will.

But, again, if that theory were true, then Helene Vauquier was the accomplice and not Mlle.

Celie." "I follow that." "Then I found an interesting piece of evidence with regard to the strange woman who came: I picked up a long red hair--a very important piece of evidence about which I thought it best to say nothing at all.
It was not Mlle.

Celie's hair, which is fair; nor Vauquier's, which is black; nor Mme.