So Nita comes to Hamilton and bleeds Flora of $10,000. Not
satisfied, Nita makes another demand, the money to be paid to her the
day of the bridge luncheon----"
"Silly!" Penny scoffed furiously. "The only evidence you have against
poor Flora is that she stole the note Dexter had written to Nita!"
"That's the crux of the matter, Penny darling!" Dundee assured her in a
maddeningly soothing voice, at which Penny clinched her hands in
impotent rage. "Flora, seeing Nita receive a letter written on her
husband's business stationery, jumps to the conclusion that Nita had
carried out her threat to tell Tracey, or that Nita has at least given
Tracey a hint of the truth and that Tracey's special-messenger note is,
let us say, a confirmation of an appointment suggested by Nita.... Very
well! Flora goes to Nita's bedroom at the first opportunity, knowing
that Nita will come there to make up for the men's arrival. Let's
suppose Flora had brought the gun and silencer with her, intending to
frighten Nita, rather than kill her. But having had proof, as she
believes, that Nita means business, Flora waits in the closet until Nita
comes in and sits down at her dressing-table, then steps out and shoots
her. Then she recoils step by step, until her foot catches in the slack
cord of the bronze lamp, causing the very 'bang or bump' which Flora
herself describes later, for fear someone else has heard it.
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