Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Inspector : [Sharply] Are you sure there was nobody in the room already?
De Levis : [Taken aback] I don’t know. I never thought. I didn’t look under the bed, if you mean that.
Inspector : [Jotting] Did not look under bed. Did you look under it after the theft?
De Levis : No. I didn’t.
Inspector : Ah! Now, what did you do after you came back from your bath? Just give us that precisely.
(i) What reply did De Levis give to the inspector’s last question in the extract?
(ii) What made De Levis check the contents of his pocket book? What did he find there? Whom did he go to upon discovering the theft?
(iii) Who was Robert? Where was Robert’s room? At what time did he take De Levis’ clothes and boots?
(iv) What is the Inspector’s final theory of the theft?
(v) Whom did De Levis accuse of stealing his money? What were his reasons for making this accusation?
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(i) De Levis had locked the door / He had left the key in the lock / Put back his sponge / Taken
off his dressing gown and put it on the foot rails of the bed / He got into bed.
(ii)
- When he touched the pocket book it felt thinner, so he checked its contents.
- He found shaving papers instead of notes.
- He went to speak to Winsor about it.
(iii)
- Robert valets Mr. De Levis / Valet
- On the ground floor at the other end of the right wing.
- 10 o’clock
(iv) The thief was in De Levis’s room all the time. He was hiding under the bed and slipped out when he went to see Winsor / He came in with a key that fitted the lock / He came in with a skeleton key and went out by the window / He came in by the window with a rope or ladder, and went out the same way.
(v) Ronald Dancy / Dancy could have easily jumped from his balcony to the balcony of De Levis’s room / Dancy had gifted the filly to De Levis and he had been upset that De Levis had made money by selling it / Dancy’s financial condition is not good. (he is hard up)