MARY: Alice, why did you follow Catherine? Were you just curious about where she was going? ALICE: Oh, I was curious all right, but I didn’t care about that, miss. See, she was wearing Mrs. Jekyll’s dress. I recognized it right away: there was a darn under the arm that I had made myself when Mrs. Poole didn’t have time. Your mother had torn it in one of her fits. And so I thought, Why is this woman wearing Mrs. Jekyll’s dress? You could have sold it, of course, but I didn’t think you would sell your mother’s clothes unless you were in desperate straits. Perhaps she had stolen it, but something
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