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.

DONOHUE. I see.

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._)

_That's_ what I wanted to tell you.

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.

(HELEN _sits above table_ R.)

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