Sophia smiled.
“I have told her! How many times have I told her! But it is useless. It is stronger than she is, and if she finishes on straw one will be able to say that it was because of that. But truly she ought not to have asked him here! Truly that was too much! If he knew...!”
“Why not?” asked Sophia, awkwardly. The answer startled her.
“Because her room has not been disinfected.”
“But I thought all the flat had been disinfected?”
“All except her room.”
“But why not her room?”
Laurence shrugged her shoulders. “She did not want to disturb her things! Is it that I know, I? She is like that. She takes an idea—and then, there you are!”
“She told me every room had been disinfected.”
“She told the same to the police and the doctor.”