[MaC] Interviewing Esme

[Ree Moorhead Pruehs]

At 08:40 AM 1/3/2005, you wrote:
>>"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."
>
>Esme looked around.  Now that Cyril and Arabella had left, Esme and Vangie 
>were alone together.
>
>"Yes," she said at last.  "She is in Bethnal Green, you know.  But ... our 
>lives have been very different.  I married Marty and we became rich ... 
>and she ... she helps girls in the East End.  And Marty found out!"
>
>She dissolved into tears.

"That bullying husband of yours?" Vangie asked. There was a dangerous tone 
in her voice. As though she knew very well what it was like to have had a 
bullying husband. And before him, an overstrict father.