“One cannot run away from one’s dreams. Murder will out in sleep.”
“Well, I have a message for you.”
“Who from?”
“Lady Bellamy. You know that she is paralysed?”
“Yes.”
“Well, she wants you to go and see her. Shall you go?”
Angela thought a little, and answered,
“Yes, I think so.”
“You must be prepared for some bitter language if she speaks at all. Very likely she will beg you to get her some poison to kill herself with. I have been obliged to take the greatest precautions to prevent her from obtaining any. I am not very sensitive, but once or twice she has positively made me shiver with the things she says.”
“She can never say anything more dreadful to me than she has said already, Dr. Williamson.”