faded bruise around her eye with foundation. “Not really,” I said, wondering why I’d never noticed the scar above her cheek that looked as if it might have been made by the sharp corner of a bedside cabinet. “He told me once that the secret of fulfillment is to live dangerously, so perhaps he didn’t take as much care of himself as he should have done.”
He flicked an embarrassed glance in Mrs. Newberg’s direction.
“Meaning he drank too much?”
I gave a small shrug which he took for agreement. I might have pointed out that Mr. Newberg’s carelessness lay in his failure to look over his shoulder, but I couldn’t see what it would achieve. No one doubted his wife had been in their room at the time.
She bowed graciously as the officer took his leave. “Are English policemen always so charming?” she asked, moving to the dressing table to dust her lovely face with powder.
“Always,” I assured her, “as long as they have no reason to suspect you of anything.”
Her reflection looked at me for a moment. “What’s to suspect?” she asked.
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