Julia didn't mind being absent for the purification ceremony as well as the primitive and frankly, useless autopsy that the physicians were attempting to do on Marcellus's body. The general consensus was that he must have been poisoned somehow, but Julia had watched him like a hawk that day. He had barely put down anything at all, and the little water he drank as well as the slice of wheat - she had eaten from the same loaf, along with Flavia and Alba.
The only person in the house who had any motive at all to kill him was her (though few people knew how much she despised him), and Julia obviously knew that she had had no hand in it. Not unless she had spawned some split personality that decided it wouldn't wait for karma to run its course and had done the good work itself. She wouldn't b
