“你整个下午都在这所房子里吗，怀特小姐？”
“Were you in the house all afternoon, Miss White?”
“是的。”
“Yes.”
“在你来客厅之前，你下过楼吗？”
“Had you been downstairs before you came into the living room?”
“没有。”
“No.”
“你整个下午都在楼上？”
“You were upstairs all afternoon?”
“是的。”
“Yes.”
“具体在什么地方？”
“Just exactly where?”
她深吸了一口气说：“我的房间。”
She drew a long breath, and said, “My room.”
至少他从她嘴里问出了超过两个字的回答，马龙心想，如果看到冯?弗拉纳根努力的盘问这个面无表情的女伴，将会是个非常有趣的场景，肯定能值回票价。
At least he’d got two words out of her, Malone told himself. Hearing von Flanagan trying to question the hard-faced panion would be well worth the price of admission.
“好吧，” 他说，“这个人可能是在贾斯特太太和我来之前被杀的，或者之后。但如果……”
“Well,” he said, “this man may have been murdered before Mrs. Justus and I arrived, or after. But if—”
“是之后。” 海伦突然说道。
“It was after,” Helene said suddenly.
所有人都看着她。
Everyone stared at her.
“我上楼去换衣服。” 她的眼睛里闪烁着奇异的光芒。
“I came up the stairs to change my dress.” There was a curiously flickering light in her eyes.
“他的门就在楼梯顶端，我上来的时候，门是开着的，他就坐在书桌旁，背对着我，正在翻电话号码簿。”
“His door is right at the head of the stairs, and when I came up, it was open. He was sitting there at the desk, his back to me, looking in the telephone book.”
“还活着？” 迈克尔?文宁难以置信地说。
“Alive?” Michael Venning said incredulously.
“显然，还活着。” 海伦说。
“Obviously,” Helene said.
“你再下楼的时候他还活着吗？” 马龙问。
“Was he alive when you came downstairs again?” Malone asked.
“我不知道。那时他的门是关闭的。他可能在那个时候…… 正在被杀…… 就在那个时候。我想是凶手把门关上了。”
“I don’t know. His door was closed. He might have been—being murdered—right then. I suppose the murderer would have closed the door.”
这次的喘息声来自伊迪丝?文宁。她的丈夫说：“听着，我们没必要都在这里守着这个。我要下楼去喝一杯。”
This time the gasp came from Editha Venning. Her husband said, “Look here, we don’t all have to stay up here with that. I’m going downstairs and have a drink.”
“我也是。” 罗特斯?艾伦无力地说。
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