Dale explained.
"It was on the tray Billy took out," she said, still wondering why so simple an answer should disturb Miss Cornelia so greatly.
"Then I'm afraid everything's over," Miss Cornelia said despairingly, and made her first gesture of defeat.

She turned away.

Dale followed her, still unable to fathom her course of reasoning.
"I didn't know what else to do," she said rather plaintively, wondering if again, as with Fleming, she had misplaced her confidence at a moment critical for them all.
But Miss Cornelia seemed to have no great patience with her dejection.
"One of two things will happen now," she said, with acrid, logic.
"Either the Doctor's an honest man--in which case, as coroner, he will hand that paper to the detective--" Dale gasped.

"Or he is not an honest man," went on Miss Cornelia, "and he will keep it for himself.
I don't think he's an honest man." The frank expression of her distrust seemed to calm her a little.

She resumed her interrogation of Dale more gently.
"Now, let's be clear about this.