[MaC] An Almighty Row (correction)

[Mel Mason]

> "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 ... "
>
> Vangie shrugged. "It worked...well enough." She turned to Pamela. "To 
> answer your question, Lady Pamela, I haven't killed anyone tonight. I will 
> admit to temptation. More than once. But not to acting on it." She looked 
> at Oswald. "And to answer yours, Mr. Skeffington-Nottle, there was a 
> chemist's bag in my medicine cabinet containing a bottle with a poison 
> label on it -- but no other markings. I think you'll find it isn't there 
> now. But there was someone in my bathroom dressing the wound on his 
> hand...and taking a very long time about it. And he had the bottle in his 
> jacket pocket, only a little while ago." She smiled tightly. "He showed it 
> to me, pretending to be 'worried' I had such a thin. And as I said, 
> Philip, I do hope you wore gloves when you handled it...I always do...but 
> I don't think you had time."

Oswald gave her a long look, and then turned to Philip Powell.

"Perhaps you'd show us that wound on your hand, sir.  Lord Benwick showed 
his ... and it was as he said - the mark of a stab wound from a knife. 
Perhaps yours will be similarly innocuous ... or perhaps it will show the 
mark of a ligature pulled tight - on another's neck."