[MaC] Interviewing Esme

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> Esme gave a little gulp.
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> "I ... I ... knew ... She told me that it was a friend of hers.  She 
> wanted to know ... But I couldn't help her!  Of course I couldn't!  How 
> would I know anything about that?"

Arabella nodded slightly. She, for one, would have been hard pressed to find 
such 'help' had she been approached. Some women knew where to obtain the 
necessary expertise, of course, or these things would not happen.  Esme's 
words also reinforced her original thoughts that someone else had been 
involved with the poor girl - for really, if Marty Fitzroy had gotten Nola 
Diamond in her condition, would she have turned for help to Fitzroy's wife?

"Mrs. Fitzroy," she asked, "you seemed anxious long before the tragedy 
occurred. What has been upsetting you so?"