III
“You were there that night, Miss Argyle?”
Tina looked at the superintendent¹. Her hands lay loosely in her lap, hereyes, dark, unwinking, told nothing.
“It is so long ago,” she said, “really I cannot remember.”
“Your car was seen there,” said Huish.
“Was it?”
“Come now, Miss Argyle. When we asked you for an account of yourmovements on that night, you told us that you went home and didn’t goout that evening. You made yourself supper and listened to the gramo-phone. Now, that isn’t true. Just before seven o’clock your car was seen inthe road quite near to Sunny Point. What were you doing there?”
She did not answer. Huish waited a few moments, then he spoke² again.
“Did you go into the house, Miss Argyle?”
“No,” said Tina.
“But you were there?”
“You say I was there.”
“It’s not just a question of my saying so. We’ve got evidence that youwere there.”
Tina sighed.
“Yes,” she said. “I did drive out there that evening.”
“But you say you didn’t go into the house?”
“No, I didn’t go into the house.”
“What did you do?”
“I drove back again to Redmyn. Then, as I told you, I made myself somesupper and put on the gramophone.”
“Why did you drive out there if you didn’t go into the house?”
“I changed my mind,” said Tina.
“What made you change your mind, Miss Argyle?”
“When I got there I didn’t want to go in.”
“Because of something you saw or heard?”
She did not answer.
“Listen, Miss Argyle. That was the night that your mother wasmurdered. She was killed between seven and half past that evening. Youwere there, your car was there, at some time before seven. How long itwas there we do not know. It is possible, you know, that it may have beenthere for some time. It may be that you went into the house—you have akey, I think—”
“Yes,” said Tina, “I have a key.”
“Perhaps you went into the house. Perhaps you went into your mother’ssitting room and found her there, dead. Or perhaps—”
Tina raised her head.
“Or perhaps I killed her? Is that what you want to say, SuperintendentHuish?”
“It is one possibility,” said Huish, “but I think it’s more likely, MissArgyle, someone else did the

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