‘But why drop Mrs. Everleigh’s corpse in our house?’ Gussie asked. ‘It was only after that that she met Theo. He’d had no opportunity to slight her before.’
‘Probably Charles’s idea,’ Theo put in. Nasty little man, Charles Selwyn. Would be just like him to try to implicate Theo in murder. Just the sort of thing he got up to in school.
But Gussie was shaking her head. ‘Mabel — our maid — said it wasn’t a gentleman that persuaded her to leave the door open. Either he had an accomplice, or it wasn’t him. I can hardly suppose him capable of deceiving her about it.’
‘It was not him,’ said Clarissa. ‘Poor i***t panicked when he realised what he had done, and fled. Once I’d got the sorry story out of him, Henry and I went looking for the corpse, but it was already gone. I hoped he had merely b
