"The balustrade of the adjoining balcony is not only in the way, but the distance is at least five feet from the extreme end of this window-ledge.

A woman accustomed to a life of adventure or to the feats of a gymnasium might do it, but not a lady of Mrs.Ransom's habits.

If your wife made her way from this room to the balcony outside her sister's window, she did it by means of the communicating door." "But the door was found locked on this side.

There is the key in the lock now." "You are sure of this ?" "I was the first one to call attention to it." "Then," began the lawyer judicially, but stopped as he noted the peculiar eagerness of Ransom's expression, and turned his attention instead to the interior of the room and the various articles belonging to Mrs.Ransom which were to be seen in it.

"The dress your wife wore when she signed her will," he remarked, pointing to the light green gown hanging on the inside of the door by which they had entered.
Ransom stepped up to it, but did not touch it.