DONOHUE. A moment ago, Miss Eastwood, you started to tell me something. You said, "If you ask me--" Now I am asking you. What was it you wanted to tell me?
MISS EASTWOOD (_seated_ R. _of console table_ R.). I don't want to especially. But I think I ought to tell you this. No one else seems to have thought of it. When the séance started we were all sitting in a circle holding each others' hands. As I understand it--
DONOHUE. We can take it for granted that I know how that is done. Go on, please.
MISS EASTWOOD. The medium got out of the circle without our knowing it, and then showed us how she did the trick.
MISS EASTWOOD. Why couldn't she have done it again? Of course, that's what someone did, isn't it? And if she could get out of the circle without our knowing it, she could get back in again, couldn't she?
(HELEN _rises._ MISS EASTWOOD _continues with an air of triumph._)
ROSALIE. If any one of you, or all of you, can get me out of this chair without untying me or cutting me loose, I will say that I 'ave done that murder.
DONOHUE. Thank you, Miss Eastwood. It's only fair to tell you that there isn't a trick or an effect that these people do that the police do not understand perfectly.
(DONOHUE _goes over and examines the way in which_ ROSALIE _is tied to the chair._)
CROSBY (_down_ L.C.). At her own request. As Miss Eastwood says, she showed us how she broke out of the circle and then suggested that we tie her into that chair to make sure she didn't do it again.
DONOHUE (R. _of_ ROSALIE'S _chair_). It's lucky for her that she did. Even if she had slipped out of those knots, there's no way in the world that she could get back in.
ROSALIE. I did say this policeman 'ad brains. (DONOHUE _turns away from her._) Get me loose, dear Inspector. My foot 'e sleeps.
(DONOHUE _turns back and unties handkerchiefs with which she is tied. She gets up and stands in front of arm-chair_ C.)
DONOHUE. Thank you very much, Miss Eastwood, that eliminates one.
ROSALIE. Then I can go? (_Starting for door_ L.)
(ROSALIE _goes_ R. _of arm-chair and sits_ R. _end of chesterfield_ C.)
Anyone else anything they want to tell me? (_Pause._) No? Mike, you'd better 'phone the Coroner and ask him to come up here. Tell him I do not want the case reported yet. And suggest that he hurries.