He came into the kitchen after dinner and asked all sorts of questions about me.’ Sarah moved a little closer to the coal fire in the cellar. ‘I can’t stop shivering,’ she said, putting her arm around Mutsy who was looking at her anxiously. ‘It’s just the way that man looked at me, as if he was mad with fury or something. He was shouting at the top of his voice at the poor cook.’ ‘What was he saying?’ asked Alfie, sounding worried. How on earth could Arthur Leamington have suspected Sarah? ‘He was yelling at her for taking in a girl off the streets to wait at table. He was saying that I could rob or murder an old lady like his mother and he told her to get that beggar’s brat out of the house immediately. Then he grabbed his hat and cloak and went off, slamming the door behind him.’ ‘Sounds like he was more bothered about you for his own sake than for his mother’s – otherwise why leave then, why not wait until you was thrown out?’ said Sammy shrewdly.
