CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVENinian followed Janet into the nursery and shut the door.
“Janet, I want you to go away.”
“Adriana wants me to stay until after the inquest.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know. I said I would.”
“I don’t want you to be here. You had to come back to see the police, but there’s no earthly need for you to stay. I’ll drive you into Ledbury, and you can get up to town by daylight.”
She shook her head.
“I said I’d stay.”
“And I say I don’t want you to. For all we know, we’ve got a homicidal maniac on the premises, and I want you off them before anything else happens.”
She said, “That’s nonsense!”
“Is it? That’s just you keeping up your character for being sensible, and you ought to know that it won’t go down with me! Are you going to tell me you didn’t get the wind up when the Sup
