Molly said she had retired at ten, after locking her door, and had not
awakened until Fordney had aroused her.
Yet a few minutes after Dot had been murdered, the Professor idly
‘shaped the wax’ of the candle on her desk. This would have been
impossible had not the candle been burning within a few minutes before
he entered.
Her insistence that she had been asleep, together with the strong
motive, convinced Fordney she was involved, as was later proved.
Love can make us fiends as well as angels.
Charles Kingsley.