"The young lady is dead.

She has been cruelly strangled within the last five or ten minutes." The Inspector turned around.
"Lock the outside door," he ordered his man.

"Has any one left the room, Mr.Marsham ?" "No one," the manager declared.
"Who discovered her ?" "The maid." Lenora rose to her feet.

She seemed a little calmer but the healthy colour had all gone from her cheeks and her lips were twitching.
"Her ladyship had just come in from the Opera," she said.

"She was sitting in her easy-chair.