[MaC] Breaking the news

[Mel Mason]

>>Faced with this double invocation, the Arp crossed the street tiwards 
>>them, moving carefully to avoid the rubble in the street.
>>
>>"Well?" he said.  "What is it?  Don't you realise there's a war on?"
>>
>>It was clear he thought them drunken revellers ripe for mischief.
>
> "Forgive us, sir," Braham replied summoning his most serious voice. "But a 
> woman, actress Nola Diamond, has apparently been murdered. Her body was 
> just found." He gave that a moment to sink in. "We thought it best to 
> notify the authorities as soon as possible."

The warden looked appalled.

"A murder?  But we can't do anything about that tonight!  Who killed her? 
Have you apprehended him?"

The warden seemed to assume a murderer must be male.