It was she who was meant to discover the crime.

By that time the motor-car would have been back three hours ago in its garage.
Servettaz, the chauffeur, would have returned from Chambery some time in the morning, he would have cleaned the car, he would have noticed that there was very little petrol in the tank, as there had been when he had left it on the day before.

He would not have noticed that some of his many tins which had been full yesterday were empty to-day.

We should not have discovered that about four in the morning the car was close to the Villa Rose and that it had travelled, between midnight and five in the morning, a hundred and fifty kilometres." "But you had already guessed 'Geneva,'" said Ricardo.

"At luncheon, before the news came that the car was found, you had guessed it." "It was a shot," said Hanaud.