While the quiet girl had been at Mrs Maple’s boarding house, she had had a friend to share her evenings with. The difficulty of Alice’s position, her listlessness and obvious distress at Daniel Rokeby’s continued absence from London, none of this had prevented her from being a pleasant companion....
Dr Mason disappeared to attend to Mr Snell and the coroner called for quiet. ‘I had already removed Mr Snell’s name from my list of witnesses and his demise, if indeed he is dead, is regrettable but of no account to these proceedings. I now ask the jury to return to the task of deciding on their ...