younger sister, Ottilie. They are still quite close to Sir Frederick, even after Augusta Havelock’s death.” “And it is because of his marriage to this Ottilie that the police believe Miles was driven to kill Artemisia?” She waved an impatient hand. “And that is where they have the wrong of it! Ottilie and Miles have a very sensible arrangement. Theirs is a friendship, a partnership of sorts. They married because Miles had an estate falling down about his ears and a bloodline that stretches back eight hundred years. Ottilie brought him a biscuit-manufacturing fortune that her uncle made. They
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