Page 113 of Murder in the Family

I don’t know. If she had, it hadn’t worked. But I reckon she wouldn’t have known where to start to find them. Not with them being so far away.

HUGO FRASER – off

In fact Brian had died in 1993.

SYLVIA CARROLL

There you are then.

HUGO FRASER – off

How did she react when Luke was killed?

SYLVIA CARROLL

Devastated. Inconsolable. She wanted to go to the funeral but it was too far. She sent the most beautiful wreath. Dahlias. I sorted it out for her.

HUGO FRASER – off

Did the police come and see her?

SYLVIA CARROLL

Oh yes. More than once. That tall bloke, Peter something—

HUGO FRASER – off

Peter Lascelles.

SYLVIA CARROLL

That’s it. Quite a nice bloke. He did his best but the poor old girl was in such a state I don’t think he got much out of her. And what could she tell him, anyway? Like I said, she didn’t know anything about Luke’s life in London.

HUGO FRASER – off

I imagine he was asking her about her will. Who would get the money now that Luke was dead.

SYLVIA CARROLL

Maybe.

HUGO FRASER – off

You never met Margaret Wilson? Or her son?

SYLVIA CARROLL

(her face hardening)

No, but I knew all about them.

HUGO FRASER – off

And?

SYLVIA CARROLL

They turned up at the home after Flo’s funeral. With a bloody lawyer, would you believe. Wanted to go through her stuff. Make an ‘inventory’. Accused me of exerting ‘undue influence’ on a‘vulnerable elderly person’ because of me getting the jewellery. They obviously thought that should have gone to them as well, the greedy bastards. Throwing round accusations like that, I could havelostmyjob—

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