“On the morning of June 29th did Nurse Hopkins make a statement to you?”
“Yes. She said she had a tube of morphine hydrochloride missing from her case.”
“What did you do?”
“I helped her to hunt for it.”
“But you could not find it?”
“No.”
“To your knowledge, was the case left overnight in the hall?”
“It was.”
“Mr. Welman and the accused were both staying in the house at the time of Mrs. Welman’s death—that is, on June 28th to 29th?”
“Yes.”
“Will you tell us of an incident that occurred on June 29th—the day after Mrs. Welman’s death?”
“I saw Mr. Roderick Welman with Mary Gerrard. He was telling her he loved her, and he tried to kiss her.”
“He was at the time engaged to the accused?”
“Yes.”
“What happened next?”
“Mary told him to think shame of himself, and him engaged to Miss Elinor!”
“In your opinion, what was the feeling of the accused towards Mary Gerrard?”
“She hated her. She would look after her as though she’d like to destroy her.”
Sir Edwin jumped up.
Elinor thought: “Why do they wrangle about it? What does it matter?”
Sir Edwin Bulmer cross-examined.
“Is it not a fact that Nurse Hopkins said she thought she had left the morphia at home?”
“Well, you see, it was this way: After—”
“Kindly answer my question. Did she not say that she had probably left the morphia at home?”
“Yes.”
“She was not really worried at the time about it?”
“No, not then.”
“Because she thought she had left it at home. So naturally she was not uneasy.”
“She couldn’t imagine anyone taking it.”
“Exactly. It wasn’t till after Mary Gerrard’s death from morphia that her imagination got to work.”