Markfield took a little time to consider this question.
“She was French, you know,” he replied. “I always found her very bright. Some people called her frivolous. She was out to enjoy herself, of course. Naturally she was a bit out of place in a backwater like this. She got some people's backs up, I believe. Women didn't like her being so smartly-dressed and all that.”
“Have you any reason to suppose that she took drugs?”
Markfield listened to this question with obvious amazement.
“Drugs? No. She'd never touch drugs. Who's been putting that lie around?”
Flamborough tactfully disregarded this question.
“Then from what you know of her, you would say that suicide would be improbable in her case?”
“Quite, I should say.”
“She had no worries that you know of, no domestic troubles, for instance?”
Markfield's eyes narrowed slightly at the question.