Does 'Then, all the time, it was in the spill vase in Mrs. Inglethorp's bedroom, under our very noses? I cried. ' stand independently of the premise 'You mean to say it was stupid for us to look so far and hard when it was always right beside us?', neither following nor contradicting it?
Then, all the time, it was in the spill vase in Mrs. Inglethorp's bedroom, under our very noses? I cried. ###You mean to say it was stupid for us to look so far and hard when it was always right beside us?