CHAPTER XXXVHe came back into the house and joined her in the dining-room. When he had shut the door he said,
“You speak of the person who planned this murder. You maintain that it was not Miss Anning. I have given you proof that it could not have been Cardozo. If Marie was killed in the way that you suggest by someone who reached in at the bottom of that window and took her by the throat, the person who did it must have had very strong hands. I suppose you are not suggesting that Pippa Maybury could have done it?”
“Oh, no, I am not suggesting that.”
“James Hardwick? Is that what is in your mind?”
“I would prefer not to say. There is a point we have not touched on, and it is, I think, important. Marie was a strong, active girl. When she felt hands at her throat she would have fought de
