19/23 Next morning--" She hesitated. I know that, because a few minutes after eight on the night before, not knowing he had retired. I tried to enter the room and make ready the bed for the night. He sang out through the door--which was locked, for I tried it--that he was in bed. That was a lie also, as after nine I saw him talking to the woman at the window." "You previously said an old woman," said the Coroner, referring to his notes. |