[MaC] An Almighty Row (correction)
Mel Mason
goldfired at oxmust.co.uk
Sun Jan 9 18:06:45 EST 2005
>>>>>Esme started - and looked at her, alarmed.
>>>>>
>>>>>"I ... I did. I worked in Boots, before I was married. But ... how do
>>>>>you know that?"
>>>>
>>>>"Because I was one of your customers. One of your...special customers of
>>>>the time."
>>>
>>>"Special customers?" James perked up at the phrase used, and turned
>>>toward Esme inquisitively.
>>
>>Esme was sitting quite still, her hands pressed to her mouth, her eyes
>>round with horror.
>>
>>"Perhaps," said Oswald grimly, "you should explain, Mrs Evans."
>
> Vangie shrugged. "It was known," she said quietly, "that women in need of
> help....certain kinds of..." She took a deep breath. "That women who were
> expecting who didn't wish to be expecting, could go to a certain chemist,
> and...not expect a great deal of trouble about the poisons register."
"It was you," breathed Esme. "You wanted to buy arsenic ... I told you it
wouldn't work ... not for that ... "
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