[MaC] More speculation in the lounge

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Tue Dec 28 13:27:57 EST 2004


>
> Marjorie shook her head.  "Wait... one of us might have
> killed Miss Diamond?  And you want us to go back to our
> rooms?  No way... I'm staying right here with other until
> this gets figured out."

"I was not insinuating," Vangie protested, wounded, "that anyone should
go anywhere alone, of course. But three or more together should be quite
safe. Besides, are we really quite sure that there might not have been
a-a burglar? Who even now might be in another of -our- flats? Waiting to
murder someone else?"

"Both excellent points," Arabella said crisply. "I do think separating into 
small groups has several advantages, one of which is easing the sense of 
chaos we are all feeling... And if we are in groups of three or four, no one 
will be in immediate danger at all." She smiled at Marjorie and said, "I 
have no reason to suspect you of anything, for example, and would feel 
perfectly comfortable in a group with you and one or two others..." 





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