[MaC] Interviewing Esme

[Ree Moorhead Pruehs]

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.

"What you're really upset about is that letter."