Miss Malone's story ends here, Shard blinked, feeling as if he were listening to some erotic novel. Meanwhile, Miss Malone's face had turned red as if about to bleed, but Miss Teresa, nestled against Shard, seemed quite interested:
"You said you didn't steal anything, so did that pretty girl with you take something?"
"Of course not, she was with me the whole time!"
"I think what Miss Teresa means is, is that blue-eyed girl truly the owner of the room?"
Professor Ivins, who was nearby, asked, and Miss Maxim, the maid, also nodded:
"The jewelry box, clothes, notebook, sketch pad, dressing table, it's said that in the lady's room where items were lost, all these things were tampered with, isn't this just... The lady who lost items was traveling alone, without a companion in the room. It shouldn't be such a coincidence that the same things were tampered with in the two first-class cabins."
