Chapter 34

“But you thought of Miss Dupuy. Miss French, as I told you yesterday, we must think of every _possible_ person, not every _probable_ one. These suggestions are not suspicions—and they harm no one who is innocent.” “I suppose that is so. Well, let us consider Miss Morton then, but of course she didn’t really kill Maddy.” “I trust not. But I must say I could sooner believe it of a woman of her type than Miss Dupuy’s.” “But Cicely didn’t either! Oh, how _can_ you say such dreadful things!” “We won’t say them any more.…