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She had scarcely disappeared, when Holloway came out to tell Mr. Manley that his breakfast was ready for him in the little dining-room. Mr. Manley set about it with the firmness of a man preparing himself against a strenuous day. The frown with which Elizabeth Twitcher's suggestion had puckered his brow faded from it slowly, as the excellence of the chop he was eating soothed him.
Elizabeth's Twitcher's eyes lost some of their suspicion, and he heard her breathe a faint sigh of relief. "I thought as 'ow as how some of them might have told you what his lordship was going to do to her, and that she she stuck that knife into him so as to stop it," she said. "What on earth are you talking about? What was his lordship going to do to her?" cried Mr.
"That would be Elizabeth Twitcher's mother. Elizabeth and Hutchings were engaged, and about ten days ago he jilted her," said Mrs. Truslove. "I suppose that when he was in love with her he bragged about these commissions to her and she told her mother." "Her mother has certainly taken it out of him for jilting her daughter. But what an unsavoury place the castle is!" said Mr. Manley.
Then she said sharply: "Go down and learn what the servants have told them all the servants everything." Her mistress's plainly greater anxiety eased a little Elizabeth Twitcher's own panic in the matter of James Hutchings, and she went down again to the servants' quarters. Mr. Flexen and Inspector Perkins learnt nothing of importance from Wilkins; but he made it clearer to Mr.
Elizabeth Twitcher's cheeks lost some more of their colour while he was speaking, and her eyes grew more scared. She hesitated for a moment; then she said: "Yes. I let him in at the side door." He had not missed her hesitation; he was sure that she was not telling the truth. "How did you know he was at the side door?" he said. She hesitated again.
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