England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Murder -- Fiction; Mystery fiction
"I'm trying to think it all over quite calmly," the letter went on.
"Perhaps it isn't Monty after all. Perhaps it is just that men
worry me. I don't know really whether I'm a man's sort of woman.
Their ways seem so queer and roundabout to me. Lots of them don't
seem fair. I don't want to marry and make a mess of it a second
time, and I don't think Monty sees this as I do. Of course, I don't
want him to tell me every little thing he does and everywhere he
goes or anything of that kind, but I hate being kept in the dark
as I know I am being. It all seemed to start with that horrible
accident. Nothing's been the same since. Of course, they've told me
about Mr. Smith and poor darling Joan, but if it was only that I
could understand it. I know there's something else. I'm afraid I'd
rather a breakdown yesterday, when all three of us were in your
cellar putting that wardrobe of mine away. There's something
uncanny about that place. Monty thinks so too, but says he doesn't
know what it is any more than I do. But there is something he does
know and won't tell. And now it's all over Chelsea that something
not quite right has happened. Mrs. Cook hinted at it this morning
when she brought my milk up, and she said the milkman had told her.
I really think that if the milkman knows I might be told. The fact
is that just at present I don't feel much like men and marriage.
You'll understand this, because I've told you heaps of things I
should never dream of telling Monty----"
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