Five Little Pigs

For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim—it is the picture of a girl watching her lover die….”

“Yes—why? Why did Caroline Crale try so desperately to establish the theory of suicide? The answer is—must be—quite simple. Because she knew who had poisoned him and she was willing to do anything—endure anything—rather than let that person be suspected.

“She who is supposed to have poisoned her husband didn’t know how he had been poisoned. She thought the poison was in the bottle.”

In one of them it is stated that Mrs. Crale threw a paperweight at the child. In the other that she attacked the baby with a crowbar. Which of those versions is the right one?”

“Amyas will only marry Elsa after I am dead,” she said.

in their future together whilst they were causing so much suffering.

Had Philip, then, always been in love with Caroline? And had his love, when she chose Amyas, turned to bitterness and hate?

I had once seen on Caroline’s face when at Alderbury she came out of Philip Blake’s room one night.”

A travesty—a grotesque travesty but—

And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay

And follow thee, my lord, throughout the world….

Those eyes. Watching him…watching him…Telling him something….

Supposing he couldn’t understand what they were telling him? Would the real woman be able to tell him? Or were those eyes saying something that the real woman did not know?

Such arrogance, such triumphant anticipation.