“Dr. Salzer is a very fine man. There is no one in the world like him,” she said, and pointed her soft, round chin at me.
“That’s a pity. You’ll miss him. Even in our enlightened jails they still separate husbands and wives.”
The vague look came back again.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Well, you should do. If they don’t sit your husband in the gas chamber, they’ll give him twenty years. Kidnapping and murder earn a sentence like that.”
“What murder?”
“A woman named Eudora Drew was murdered on your husband’s instructions. I have been kidnapped, and there’s a girl across the way who I think has been kidnapped, too: Anona Freedlander. And then there’s Nurse Gurney.”
A sly little smile lit up the woman’s fat face.
“He has nothing to do with any of that. He thinks Miss Freedlander is a friend of mine who has lost her memory.”
“And I suppose he thinks I’m a friend of yours, too?” I said sarcasticallv.