Noble frowned. He hadn't gotten that far — because while he would surely never be asked about Mrs. Cartwright unless otherwise implicated, but Henrietta certainly would, even if they never found the body. This was her mother.

"Tell them you saw her go outside and lost her there," he said, because she had obviously been outside. (Noble was going to have to come up with another excuse for his having been outside, but he didn't want to ask her about it.)

"Or — you lost her at the party."

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