"Perhaps the cold--" "There was a third glass.

We found it in the adjoining closet.

It had not been used.

That third glass has a meaning if only we could find it out." A possibility which had risen in my mind faded at these words.
"Three glasses," I dully repeated.
"And a small flask of cordial.

The latter seems pure enough." "I cannot understand it." The phrase had become stereotyped.