[MaC] Examining the body

[Dorothea Salo]

> "Although I'll probably be more use examining the room," said Lucinda 
> frankly.  "I'm not much of one for examining dead bodies, to be honest."
> 
> Accordingly, she took a seat to one side while the two trained nurses 
> began their preliminary examination.

	"Tuning fork," Pamela said at one point, apropos of absolutely nothing. 
"Mrs. Skeffington-Nottle, have you seen a tuning fork or anything of 
that ilk lying about in here?"

> It appeared to both of them that Nola had been strangled with a ligature 
> of some sort, now removed.  She had fought, it seemed, but the gloves 
> she had been wearing had prevented her from - for example - scratching 
> the face of her murderer.  One shoe had fallen off - it was possible 
> that she had kicked her murderer.
> 
> "Not that that would tell us much," said Lucinda ruefully when they told 
> her.  "Most of us have bruises all over from taking tumbles in the 
> blackout. I know I do!"

	"Or she might have been trying to run," Pamela suggested. Keeping her 
voice level had become something of a strain; Pamela wasn't cut out to 
be a coroner. "Errrr... Tabitha, could you please look at this when 
you've a moment?" She pointed first to dark circles around Nola's eyes, 
and then to dark purple splotches on her stomach. "It looks for all the 
world like blood-poisoning -- a rather advanced case of it, I should say 
-- and yet I haven't found any sign of an infected wound. I don't know 
*anything* about poisons, I'm afraid; not something Our Boys tend to run 
into. Is there one that would do this?"

	<tag Tabitha, Warren, Lucinda, anybody else here including Nola>