[MaC] Interviewing Esme

[Mel Mason]

> 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?"
>
> "Nothing," said Esme nervously, twisting her handkerchief even more.  "I'm 
> just worried about my sister, that's all, with all this dreadful bombing. 
> She ... she lives in the East End.  In Bethnal Green."
>
> "That," Vangie declared, her alto voice a quelling knell of certainty, "is 
> not all you're worried about. Isn't it time you told the truth? You've 
> told at least two lies tonight...and those are only the ones I know of."
Esme looked at her apprehensively.

"What do you mean?" she asked.