We need to find out more about her so I think maybe you should keep searching through the documents and also get William to do a further search of the basement. What was the document you found that mentioned her?’ she asked. ‘It was a copy of a letter from George Brompton to her family telling them that she was unwell so couldn’t go home for the weekend,’ Betty told her. ‘I wonder what he had to do with it,’ Mrs Brompton pondered, ‘Oh lord!’ she exclaimed as she had a sudden thought, ‘I think it must have been his baby. It makes sense, that’s why I didn’t know anything about him. The family must have pretended he never existed, but did they know she was in the basement? Where was she before she died? They wouldn’t have let her stay in the house. It means that there could be somewhere else down in that cellar where he kept her until she was in labour. Tell William I want to see him now please,’ she asked Wyn. Wyn ran down stairs to find William. ‘Mrs Brompton wants you right now,’ she told him. ‘What for?’ he asked. ‘Just come on, you’ll see,’ Wyn told him. They both ran back upstairs to the drawing room. ‘You wanted me Mrs Brompton?’ William said as he walked in. ‘Oh yes William, I would like you to do another search of the basement, there must be another room down there somewhere.
