"On Monday evening you two young people parted at half past ten.

How do you fix the time ?" Doris answered without hesitation: "The large window of Mr.Grant's study was open, and we both heard a clock in the hall chime the half-hour.

I said, 'Goodness me, is that half past ten ?' and started for home at once.

Mr.Grant came with me as far as the bridge.

When I reached my room, in exactly five minutes after leaving The Hollies, I stood at the open window--that window"-- and she pointed to a dormer casement above the sitting-room--"and looked out.