They were all rather depressing – and deliberately so – but Interview Room C, which had the smallest window and the least natural light, was the dreariest of the trio. And Interview Room C was the one in which Woodend had chosen to conduct his interrogation of Thelma Hawtrey. Woodend looked across the table, at the woman who he had already charged with murder. She looked very calm, he thought. No, that wasn’t it at all. She didn’t just look very calm – she was very calm. ‘You may as well make a clean breast of it right from the start, you know, Thelma,’ he said. ‘I’ve done nothing wrong, and I’ve nothing to come clean about,’ Thelma Hawtrey said firmly. ‘And I would prefer it, Chief Inspector Woodend, if you would address me as either Mrs Hawtrey or Madam.’ Woodend sighed. ‘Look, Mrs Hawtrey, you know we found Bradley Pine’s watch in your garden, don’t you? ‘I know you say that you did. But I’ve no proof you didn’t put it there yourselves.’ ‘Now why should we have done that?’ ‘I should have thought that was obvious.’ ‘Not to me, it isn’t.’ ‘Then I’ll explain it to you.
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