Call After Midnight
““So she says.”
Jenny stared at her. “Do you doubt it?”
Blanche thought for a moment and shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“It would be easy to find out.”
“How?”
“Why—why ask Fiora!”
Blanche smiled. “Cal did ask Fiora.”
“Well, then search for it—”
“In this house?” Blanche said again.
“Do you mean that you think Fiora really does have a gun and shot herself with it? And then she hid the gun somewhere?”
“I don’t say that—”
“I think you did.”
“I’ll be honest. It did occur to me because I can’t help thinkin...g that if anybody had entered the house surely we’d have known it. I only wish Fiora had talked to me about whatever is troubling her.”
“You think that she did it intentionally. Why?”
“I cannot possibly imagine why. Unless she had some foolish little quarrel with Peter and—oh, wanted to arouse his sympathy or—I really can’t say. But poor Peter does look stricken.”
“If you mean he looks guilty or self-reproachful, he doesn’t.”MoreLess
Jenny stared at her. “Do you doubt it?”
Blanche thought for a moment and shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“It would be easy to find out.”
“How?”
“Why—why ask Fiora!”
Blanche smiled. “Cal did ask Fiora.”
“Well, then search for it—”
“In this house?” Blanche said again.
“Do you mean that you think Fiora really does have a gun and shot herself with it? And then she hid the gun somewhere?”
“I don’t say that—”
“I think you did.”
“I’ll be honest. It did occur to me because I can’t help thinkin...g that if anybody had entered the house surely we’d have known it. I only wish Fiora had talked to me about whatever is troubling her.”
“You think that she did it intentionally. Why?”
“I cannot possibly imagine why. Unless she had some foolish little quarrel with Peter and—oh, wanted to arouse his sympathy or—I really can’t say. But poor Peter does look stricken.”
“If you mean he looks guilty or self-reproachful, he doesn’t.”MoreLess
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