"What time was it when he left you ?" "I can't rightly say.

But it wasn't half-past eleven," she said.
He perceived that that was true.

At the moment there was no more to be learned from her.

If she could throw any more light on the doings of James Hutchings, she was on her guard and would not.

But he had learned that James Hutchings had not entered the Castle by the side door.