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"Exactly I ht be able to help with the ‘why’"

"How?"

"When?" asked Suzanne and smiled Then her smile drifted away as she turned to look back at the hole in the garden, surrounded by yellow, fluttering tape "I knew Lillian better than anyone Better than her parents Probably better than she knew herself I can help you"

She stared into his deep brown eyes She was defiant, prepared for battle What she wasn’t prepared for hat she saw there Consideration

He was considering her words Not disu about what she’d said, and he’d heard

The Chief Inspector studied the energetic woht, and ? Did she not see herself, or not care how she looked?

She looked foolish Even declared herself to be that

But she wasn’t Her eyes were shrewd Her words even shrewder

She knew the victim better than anyone She was uniquely placed to help But was that the real reason she was there?

"Hello," said Clara, tentatively She alking toward them from the kitchen door

Suzanne immediately turned and stared, then she walked toward Clara, her hands out

"Oh, I am sorry I should have knocked on your door and asked perarden I don’t knohy I didn’t My nas and were talking Gaarden To the prayer stick stuck in the ground And he reinner’s chip Froed to the victi to the arden, unannounced?

Was she looking for thethey already had it?

Clara and Suzanne had joined hi Lillian’s body

"Were you a friend of Lillian’s?" asked Clara, when she’d finished

"Sort of We hadthe older wohed Suzanne "Not in your league at all I like to think ofelse"

Both wohed

Behind them, seen only by Gah catching their laughter

"Well,else’ for years," ad at all Not even noticed This wasmemory"