At first it didn’t seem as if Mrs. Thomas would answer. And then: “She had an abnormal relationship to that boy.” “Boy?” Will. Will had been here? Elizabeth felt the hairs on her arms prickle. “Kept him locked up. Six or seven, he would have been,” said Mrs. Thomas. “A well-behaved little lad. She treated him like a criminal. Tied him up to the bedpost. And the way she’d look at him, like . . .”
