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The interval between Acts II and III was an unusually long one, and the three men who sat in the stage box were in such harmony of mind that none of them felt the necessity for making conversation. The piece was a conventional crook play and each of the three had solved the "mystery" of the murder before the drop fell on the first act. They had reached the same solution (and the right one) without any great mental effort.
Fare, the Police Commissioner, had dined with George Manfred and Leon Gonsalez (he addressed them respectively as "Senor Fuentes" and "Senor Mandrelino" and did not doubt that they were natives of Spain, despite their faultless English) and the party had come on to the theatre.