yesterday? Casually-tactfully-without telling her of Ricori's illness?"
He said, bluntly: "Not without you give me more of a lead-Mollie's no fool."
"Very well. I am not aware whether Ricori told you, but the Darnley woman is dead. We think there is a
connection between her death and Peters' death. We think that it has something to do with the love of
both of them for Mollie's baby. The Darnley woman died precisely as Peters did-"
He whispered-"You mean with the same-trimmings?"
"Yes. We had reason to think that both might have picked up the-the disease-in the same place. Ricori
thought that perhaps Mollie might know something which would identify that place. A place where both
of them might have gone, not necessarily at the same time, and have been exposed to-the infection.
Maybe even a deliberate infection by some ill-disposed person. Quite evidently what Ricori learned from