“Tell me how you come to think I killed Janet,” she said.
“You left your brand on her body, Miss Answerth.”
“Left me brand on the little bitch. I wish I had.”
“When you killed her, Miss Answerth, the odour of the salve applied to your neck and back was on your hands. The odour of oil of wintergreen is quite unmistakable. After Mrs Leeper left you last night, she washed her hands in the kitchen. I heard her. About the shoulders and the head of your sister’s body is the odour of wintergreen.”
The tension waned. Mary said:
“That’s a good idea about Morris being looked after by Mrs Leeper, and the place being managed by Blaze.”
It could be then that she understood the mind of this man who had proffered the “good idea” and, understanding, was able to thrust aside the life-long aggressiveness to reveal the woman she might have been had not the aborigines pointed the bone at her forebears, cursing them and their children’s children, slamming shut all avenues of escape for any Answerth down to the fourth generation.
She nodded as though agreeing with what she saw in Bony’s mind, recognizing and accepting the inevitable. It could have been to all those long-dead aborigines, as well as to Bony, that she admitted:
“You win.”
“But without pleasure, Miss Answerth,” Bony said. “I have won so often that I am not gratified by what has become a habit.”
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