Amanda gave him a thoughtful stare and her honey-coloured eyes were clouded.
‘It’s laid on in here and in two spare bedrooms and the dining-room they don’t use,’ she observed. ‘Nowhere else. What’s the matter with Minnie?’
‘Nothing I noticed. She seems remarkably cheerful. At the moment she’s comforting my ghoul friend, Miss Pinkerton from Fanny’s outfit. The poor woman stumbled on the police just as they were raising the body.’
‘Oh dear,’ Amanda was sympathetic. ‘People never look away. But seriously, do you really think that Minnie is all right? The whole place seems to be run like an Alice in Wonderland factory—all crazy union rules.’
Mr Campion resumed his spectacles. ‘It must be something to do with officialdom,’ he said. ‘Everything in the free world is, today. It’ll pass, but at
