‘Those silly little edges. They aren’t rails at all! But I still don’t see how she could have done it, even in the dark. You’d think anyone would be extra careful in the dark, wouldn’t you?’ ‘I suppose she must have felt faint,’ said Tyson. ‘In fact that was probably what she was coming down for. To get some aspirin or something off Gussie. Gussie’s got their medicine chest in her room.’ ‘But wouldn’t you think she’d have had the sense to just sit down if she felt faint? Really, people are too stupid!’ It was obvious from Lorraine’s tone that, horrified as she was, she considered Millicent Bates to have been guilty of thoroughly inconsiderate behaviour, and now that the first shock of discovery was over, her emotions leant more to anger than grief. It was over an hour since Dany had aroused the sleeping household, and they were all in the drawing-room waiting for the arrival of the doctor, an ambulance and the police. All except Gussie — who had succumbed to a fit of hysterics and was now in bed having been given two sedatives and a hot-water bottle — and Nigel Ponting, who had driven in to the town to fetch the doctor and inform the police.
