CROSBY.  I think so, undoubtedly.

DONOHUE.  Mike, ’phone over to the station house and have them send a matron over here.

(DUNN exits L., and closes the door after him.)

Now about that light.  There was just one lamp turned on as I remember.

CROSBY.  Someone turned on the rest of the lights, almost immediately.

DONOHUE.  Could the knife have been hidden about the room, since that time?

CROSBY.  It’s extremely unlikely.  We have all been here together.  A thing of that sort would have been seen.

DONOHUE.  Then I expect we’ll find it without much trouble. (There is a pause, as he looks slowly at each person individually in the room. WILLIAM puts arm on HELEN’S shoulders as DONOHUE looks at him.) In the meantime, I think we’ll let it remain where it is. (Crosses down R. He turns with a gesture which takes them all in.) You see how inevitably the guilty person must be discovered.  Don’t you think it would be much simpler to confess? (Pause.) No?  Then I suppose we will have to continue. (Crosses up L., takes a chair and places it L. side of circle, then he takes the chair down L. and places that in lower left-hand side of circle. CROSBY moves to C.) I’d like to visualize the scene a little more clearly. (TRENT places chair L. side of circle.) Let’s form that circle again—­(Turns two single chairs down C. around with backs to audience.  Crosses and gets chair in front of table and places it in lower right-hand side of circle. MRS. CROSBY, MISS ERSKINE, MRS. TRENT, TRENT and MISS STANDISH rise and move to the L. of the circle.) Of course this time without Mr. Wales. (MISS EASTWOOD rises and stands at R. end of chesterfield.  During these last few speeches of DONOHUE, TRENT and CROSBY have placed the remainder of chairs in the circle.) All sit as you were sitting at the seance.

(There is a general movement.  STANDISH crosses R. to above table R. The minute this suggestion is made ROSALIE comes down, nearer to DONOHUE, and looks at him anxiously.  Something in his suggestion greatly disturbs her.)

CROSBY (in upper L. side of circle).  Will, you were there by the lamp, and Madame la Grange was next to you, and I was next to her—­

DONOHUE.  Then how did they sit? (Down R.)

CROSBY (next to ROSALIE, L.C.).  I’m trying to remember.  It’s queer what a jumbled memory one has.  If anyone had asked me about it I would have said I could have told how we were sitting with great accuracy.  But I can’t somehow.

MISS ERSKINE.  I was next to you, Mr. Crosby. (Upper L. side of circle.  She turns to MRS. CROSBY, who is standing over L.) Don’t you remember, Mrs. Crosby, he said he’d always wanted to hold my hand, and we joked about it. (Sits in her original chair.)