Chapter 16Walter was sitting down for a smoke with a cup of coffee when he heard a tread on the stair coming up to the loft.
He’d retreated here after morning surgery, because the girls clearly needed a bit of time to themselves. Mrs Barker was agog with the news Miss Lucy had been arrested…arrested!—on suspicion of murder! Murder!—and he couldn’t bear sitting in the kitchen listening to her chatter away, however sympathetic she was…Poor Miss Lucy! How terrible of that policeman to take her away without listening to her telling him she’d seen Dr Marks in the middle of the night! How terrible of the police to think Miss Lucy—Miss Lucy!—could do such an awful thing. Such a gentle soul! And she and Dr Marks shared a bed, although of course no-one in the house ever spoke of it! She wouldn’t d
