The Strangling On the Stage (2013)

Authors: Simon Brett

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“‘Or at least send for an ambulance.’ ‘Hester specifically asked me not to,’ Jude whispered back. They were in the sitting room of Woodside Cottage and the subject of their conversation had just gone upstairs to the loo. ‘Yes, but she’s not rational. People who try to kill themselves are by definition not rational.’ ‘It wasn’t a very serious attempt to kill herself. Those nail scissors couldn’t have done much damage. The cuts are only surface scratches.’ ‘Maybe they are this time, but people who do that kind of thing are very likely to try again. Someone in authority should be informed.’ ‘Carole, I’d rather just talk to Hester for a while, find out what her state of mind really is.’ ‘Not great, if she’s trying to top herself,’ said Carole shortly. ‘Please. I’d just like to talk to her.’ Jude’s words only added to Carole’s sense of pique. ‘I’d just like to talk to her.’ Nothing on the lines of ‘We should talk to her.’ Not for the first time that evening, Carole felt excluded.

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