I don't know how I did it, but the beastly thing jumped at me and I just stabbed him and killed him, and I am glad," she nodded many times and repeated, "I am glad." "So I gather--I found the dog and now perhaps you'll explain why I didn't find you ?" Again she hesitated and he felt that she was hiding something from him.
"I don't know why you didn't find me," she said; "I was there." "How did you get out ?" "How did you get out ?" she challenged him boldly.
"I got out through the door," he confessed; "it seems a ridiculously commonplace way of leaving but that's the only way I could see." "And that's how I got out," she answered, with a little smile.
"But it was locked." She laughed.
"I see now," she said; "I was in the cellar.

I heard your key in the lock and bolted down the trap, leaving those awful scissors behind.

I thought it was Kara with some of his friends and then the voices died away and I ventured to come up and found you had left the door open.
So--so I--" These queer little pauses puzzled T.X.There was something she was not telling him.

Something she had yet to reveal.
"So I got away you see," she went on.

"I came out into the kitchen; there was nobody there, and I passed through the area door and up the steps and just round the corner I found a taxicab, and that is all." She spread out her hands in a dramatic little gesture.
"And that is all, is it ?" said T.X.
"That is all," she repeated; "now what are you going to do ?" T.X.looked up at the ceiling and stroked his chin.
"I suppose that I ought to arrest you.