Crossword-Solution: BOUTONNIERE 11 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Murderers don't go about decked with flowers, and yet at midnight a man in evening dress was not impossible, and evening dress might easily imply a boutonniere.

Why not assume that he had come out from New York, in evening dress, at or about midnight? This would account for the newspaper and the yellow rose petals, for, if he bought a boutonniere in the city, how probable he would select the same flower he had just sent his fiancee.

Take out those things; come! Here is a pretty boutonniere, and I will fasten it much better in your buttonhole--let me." In vain did he try to seem cold to her; his heart thawed in spite of himself.

Take out those things; come! Here is a pretty boutonniere, and I will fasten it much better in your buttonhole--let me.” In vain did he try to seem cold to her; his heart thawed in spite of himself.

Since their betrothal, he had claimed the privilege of sending the flowers she wore, on special occasions, and she had invariably expressed her appreciation through the dainty lips of a boutonniere arranged by her own fingers.