“Because she had told me to.”
“When?”
“Last night before she went off duty.”
“What did she say?”
“She said, ‘All right, I’ll come over.’”
“Then you both expected Rose Standish to die, Miss Kerr?”
All of this dialogue had gone on so swiftly that the girl had failed to make her brain control her speech. It had come out ... spontaneously....
“We didn’t either, only....”
Dr. Harrison decided that this was not the time for the truth. He passed off her reply with, “What happened next?”
“I called the night supervisor and Dr. Mattus, and waited until they came. And then....”