[MaC] Revelations?

[Margaret Dean]

Mel Mason wrote:
> 
> >> > Then her gaze turned hard on Esme.  "But I think you did want
> >> > Miss Diamond dead.  Especially since you weren't married to
> >> > Fitzroy.  It would'a been easy for him to turn you and and
> >> > take her in, especially if she was pregnant by Fitzroy.  After
> >> > all wasn't it your sister who bodged the operation on Miss
> >> > Diamond?  Maybe it was deliberate."
> >>
> >> Esme looked at her in horror.  "But ... but ... it wasn't Marty's!"
> >
> > "Do you know whose it was, then?" asked Marion, who after
> > collecting and marking the teacups had been sitting and listening
> > to the conversations.  Her tone was conversational, unemphatic --
> > her interviewer's voice.
> 
> Esme shook her head.  "She didn't tell me," she said.  "All I knew ... it
> was an officer of some kind.  And Marty told her ... she had to get rid of
> it, or her career was finished."

"There are quite a lot of officers about, these days," said
Marion, deliberately refraining from looking at anyone in the
room.  "Did she say anything else about him?"


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>