To the best of his belief you dined at a club, and occupied a stall at Daly's Theater subsequently.

He was sure, too, you had not walked home through the rain, so it was easy to draw the conclusion that you returned in a covered vehicle.

Mr.Furneaux requested Bates to produce the clothes you had worn, which, owing to the uproar created by the news of the murder, had not been brushed and put away.

As a consequence the silk collar and part of the back of your dress-coat bore the marks of raindrops.

How had they got there?
The only logical deduction was that you had thrust your head and shoulders through a window, and the time of the action is established almost beyond doubt, because you had changed the coat when Bates came from the pillar-box.