POLICEMAN. To begin with, who is the woman we are talking about?

BODIE. On the surface, she is just a little drudge. These studios are looked after by a housekeeper, who employs this girl to do the work.

POLICEMAN. H’m! Sleeps on the premises?

BODIE. No; she is here from eight to six.

POLICEMAN. Place of abode?

BODIE. She won’t tell anyone that.

POLICEMAN. Aha! What’s the party’s name?

BODIE. Cinderella. Haven’t you heard that name before?

POLICEMAN. Can’t say I have, sir. But I’ll make inquiries at the Yard.

BODIE. It was really I who gave her that name, because she seemed such a poor little neglected waif. After the girl in the story-book, you know.

POLICEMAN. No, sir, I don’t know. In the Force we find it impossible to keep up with current fiction.

BODIE. She was a girl with a broom.