The boys were on the upper floor, in an attic dormitory. She herself stood guard on the landing below. The girls shared twin rooms on the second floor. Mrs Brisco demonstrated that all the locks and keys to the rooms worked and made the girls promise to lock their doors, but finally she had had t...
‘I can do little for them. There are so many grave public matters to attend to. But one thing is preying on my mind. It is a private matter, a family matter, perhaps I should ignore it, but it won’t leave me be.’ He asked me to make enquiries, as discreetly as possible, to try and find out what h...