You would say that even if you had embraced some Young Person in a sealskin coat, what had that to do with the robbery?
Let me tell you, then, that that sealskin coat represented the quality and character of your fatal entanglement! You bartered your honor for it--that stolen cigar case was the purchaser of the sealskin coat! "Silence! Having thoroughly established your motive, I now proceed to the commission of the crime itself.

Ordinary people would have begun with that--with an attempt to discover the whereabouts of the missing object.

These are not MY methods." So overpowering was his penetration that, although I knew myself innocent, I licked my lips with avidity to hear the further details of this lucid exposition of my crime.
"You committed that theft the night I showed you the cigar case, and after I had carelessly thrown it in that drawer.

You were sitting in that chair, and I had arisen to take something from that shelf.

In that instant you secured your booty without rising.