[MaC] "Now we know..."

[Nowsounds]

>> "Pamela, no!" Arabella cried. It tore from her as she hurriedly
>> followed her daughter. With all the worry they'd shared over Edmund,
>> it had never occurred to her that Pamela might willfully place
>> herself in a near-equivalent danger....
>
> The cry brought Pamela to a sudden halt; she had to grab the bannister to 
> keep from falling head-over-heels down the remaining stairs. She pushed 
> herself upright. "Mum?" she called, at the unmistakable sound of her 
> mother's descent. "Mum, go back. Stay upstairs. I'll be fine; you just go 
> back."

"Let them handle it... let Michael, let the authorities. It's been so 
dreadful tonight... Mrs. Evans... all of it. I couldn't bear it if anything 
happened to you. That would be the last straw, Pamela."