She flushed up, pink as her three fat settees when he told her and gave Rafferty a beam of approval such as he rarely received. But, to forestall anything further in way of gratitude from Amelia Frobisher, he was quick to jump in.
‘If we could just get back to more important matters—what time was it that you found Mrs Mortimer’s body?’
‘It was eight o’clock. I remember Clara’s beautiful mantle clock chimed the hour as I knocked and called her name. It was such a shock to find her like that, all bloodied and with her clothes in disarray.’ Amelia Frobisher put a fluttering hand to her thin bosom. ‘I thought this was a safe block. I can’t understand how the man who attacked her can have got in. I don’t believe any of the residents would be so careless of our security as to buzz strangers in
