“Anyhow, he didn’t impress me, and he didn’t impress the Coroner. The Coroner kept at him a long time, trying to get it out of him, how he’d lost the sack and so on. Some of the jury asked questions too. They couldn’t understand about the wood-collecting and what he wanted firewood for in the summer, and⁠—Oh yes, I remember. He said it must have slipped off the boat, you see, and been picked up by somebody. Then they asked him what he did with the wood when he picked it up⁠—did he put it in the sack then and there or what? He said no, he just threw it in the bottom of the boat. Then the Coroner said, ‘When did you put it in the sack?’ Mr. Egerton said, ‘In the garden, of course, to take it indoors.’ And then, you see, the Coroner said, ‘Why on earth did he take the sack out in the boat at all ?’ You could have heard a⁠—” Mrs. Vincent thought better of it. “