Margaret thought so much over the next few days that the people around her could hardly start a conversation with her. All she could think about was what she had heard, and what she could do about it. Eventually, she came to these conclusions:
• she could hardly go to Elizabeth with just a snippet of a conversation she had eavesdropped on. She needed concrete evidence to back her claims up, in case Elizabeth went to the Council with the information but they did not listen to her because she could not prove anything.
• on the Friday, when the next "shipment" came in, Margaret would be at the warehouse in Rochester to verify her claims. This way she would know exactly what was going on and who was involved, and Elizabeth could organise an investigation or — what had that man called it? A r
