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“Then you haven’t a well?”
Mrs. Selby said, “Oh, no! I shouldn’t fancy drinking water out of a well-oh, not at all!”
They said good-night and walked away.
When they were at a safe distance Frank Abbott said,
“Did you think they might have a well?”
“It was a possibility. Mrs. Maple has one at the bottom of her garden.”
“How do you know that?”
“Florrie Hunt told me.”
He said, “Do you really think-”
“I do not know. By all accounts Miss Holiday is, or was, a person of very few ideas, extremely nervous in some directions-she could hardly enter a house where there was a man- and a good deal taken up with her own superiority and the fact that she had come down in the world. The quarrel with the cook at Crewe House may have been more important than has been admitted. Or, without being of any importance in itself, it may have weighed on Miss Holiday’s mind. Whilst she was with Mrs. Selby this weight might have been lifted, only to return more heavily when she came out by herself into the dark. There could have been an impulse towards self-destruction. I do not say that there was. It is just one of several possibilities.”
Frank Abbott said,
“I’ll get the Melbury people on to Mrs. Maple’s well tomorrow.”
CHAPTER 19
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“This cup’s got all the skin on it.”
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“Oh, yes, you do! Change cups with me! I won’t drink this one!”
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A quarter of an hour later when Rosamond opened the door and stood on the threshold listening nothing could have been more satisfactory than the sound of Je
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