When she reached the top without having found anything to answer her, she stopped: she would not believe her first thought while any other solution could be found. She leant against the balustrade and looked down into the hall. Suddenly it crossed her mind that it was possible that Sir Roger might have been struck from there: she wondered why it had not occurred to her before and then realized that as long as it was assumed that the cigarette box had killed him any such possibility was far too remote. But now when another weapon was in question the situation was different. As she stood, though, just at the head of the stairs, she saw that Sir Roger would have had his back towards her, if he had been turned towards the hall; and he had been, she was sure, for, if he had been coming up the stairs and the body moved, there must have been some indications, and there were none. She accordingly went along a few steps until she reached a bracket which stood against and level with the top of the balusters, and could see most of the hall. Here she was almost directly above the spot at which the body had been found, and she stood still, her thoughts concentrated on the one problem directly before her mind, why had Philip come upstairs immediately after the murder? She gazed out over the hall and tried to find a reason. Her eyes travelled slowly over all she could see, from the doors of the hall and the dining-room across the hall to the tragic place almost immediately below her. No thought, no reason came to her. She leant forward to discover how far underneath her towards the drawing-room door she could see and found that it was invisible. She was turning away with a gesture of impatience when her glance fell on a little bronze statuette of a dancing girl about nine inches high and fixed into a small ebony pedestal which stood on the bracket level with the top of the balusters. It had stood there for years and she had passed it a thousand times, but there was something about its pose now which instantly attracted her attention, keyed as that was to the uttermost. The right arm, which ordinarily was raised with the elbow bent at right angles to the body and the forearm curving in an easy, graceful manner outwards, was now bent forwards and rather across the body in a way that huddled the shoulder awkwardly.