[MaC] Interviewing Esme

[Brenda McCartney]

--- Mel Mason <goldfired at oxmust.co.uk> wrote:

> >> Back in Vangie's flat, Esme Fitzroy was pressed tight into the
> corner
> >> of the
> >> sofa, twisting a handkerchief over and over in her nervous hands.
> >> When
> >> Vangie offered her a cup of tea, she started as though she
> expected
> >> it
> >> contained poison.
> >
> > Cyril glanced out the door, torn between following the commotion
> back
> > upstairs or staying to help Esme.  He worried increasingly about
> > Florence, but Esme appeared to know something about what was
> happening
> > here.  He ventured a question to his distraught neighbor.  "Esme,
> > dear," he asked gently, "what do you know?  How did you know about
> > Nola's ...condition."
> >
> 
> Esme gave a little gulp.
> 
> "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?"

"Of course, you couldn't," Cyril answered cautiously, since he had no
clue what she was talking about.  He glanced at Vangie and Arabella to
see if this made any more sense to a woman than it did to him.  He also
glanced nervously at the door, as it sounded as if the crowd upstairs
might be in the vicinity of his own flat.

<tag anyone in the room or passing the door>
> 
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