Perhaps I am, but if the contention is raised that no connection has been shown to exist between Mrs.Taylor and this foreign Madame, save such as was made by the death of Madame's child, I must retort by asking who warned Madame Duclos of the fatal occurrence at the museum in time for her to flee before even our telephone messages reached her hotel?
Gentlemen, there is but one person who could have done this--our chief witness, Ermentrude Taylor.

She alone had not only the incentive, but the necessary opportunity.

Coroner Price as well as myself made a great mistake when we allowed Mrs.Taylor to go home alone that day." "Very likely." This from the Chief Inspector.

"But if the information I have received on this point is correct, she seemed at that time to be so entirely dissociated with a deed whose origin had just been located in the opposite gallery, that you have no real cause to blame yourselves in this regard." "True; our minds were diverted.

But you are waiting for me to explain what I mean by opportunity.