Margaret.
Yes, sir.
Sir Robert.
At 2.20 P.M.?
Margaret.
I suppose that was the time, sir.
Sir Robert.
Did you dispatch it yourself from the telegraph
office on the pier or give it to one of the boys on the
platform?
Margaret.
I dispatched it myself, sir.
Sir Robert.
Do you remember if there was anybody else in
the office at the time?
Margaret.
No, there was nobody else, sir.
Sir Robert.
Then how do you account for it that the telegram
sent by the other Freda on the train—the telegram
to Margaret Schiller—was handed in at the same
moment?
Margaret.
[Hesitating, stammering.] Somebody must have
come in immediately after me. . . . And now that I
remember, while I was writing the telegram to you
another lady did come in——
Sir Robert.
But didn't you say there was nobody else there?
