She should have given her a false name." Hanaud nodded.
"It is the one slip she made in the whole of the business.

Nor did she recover herself very cleverly.

For when the Commissaire pounced upon the name, she at once modified her words.

She only thought now that the name was Adele, or something like it.

But when I went on to suggest that the name in any case would be a false one, at once she went back upon her modifications.