Julia,+Mitzi+and+Patrick

Chapter 6: Julia, Mitzi and Patrick
 * The chapter begins with Julia entering the room for questioning.
 * Julia sits in the chair that is normally occupied by the owner of the house, Letitia Blacklock. Craddock finds her “air of composure” annoying (46).
 * As Julia is asked what happened last night, she gives Craddock attitude with a response of “we slept like logs” and says that repetition is dreary (46).
 * Of course, this is not the response Craddock is looking for and the irritation can be felt as Craddock responds back to her sternly with "“I’m asking the questions”" (46).
 * Julia Simmons says that Colonel, Mrs. Easterbrook, Miss Hinchcliffe, Miss Murgatroyd, Mrs. Swettenham, Edmund Swettenham, and Mrs. Harmon were there to witness the killing.
 * Julia Simmons repeats how the guests commented on the central heating and chrysanthemums.
 * Julia says Mrs. Harmon is “rather a pet” by unthinkingly asking about the murder (47). In other words, she was the one who said what was lingering in everyone’s mind.
 * Julia tells Craddock she thought she was by the window.
 * She also tells Craddock about how the flashlight was “like a spotlight in a dance hall” (47).
 * After Julia explains about the flashlight, she tells him two shots went off.
 * She then continues with Mitzi screaming from another room, the flashlight going out, and a third shot being triggered.
 * Julia seems clueless as to whether the intruder dying was accidental or suicidal. She says "“I thought it was still some silly joke”" (48).
 * She is again clueless to whether or not the intruder was deliberately pointing the gun at Letitia Blacklock.
 * After Craddock finished questioning, not getting all the information he needed, went on to question Mitzi as Julia rudely warned him about her fingernails.
 * As Craddock enters the kitchen, Mitzi goes off on a tangent and say things about how England is different "“but no, it is just the same”" including persecution (49). Paranoia much?
 * Craddock is fed up and says he will bring her to the station, Mitzi then says no and that she will “answer civil questions civilly” (49).
 * Mitzi tells Craddock she was the one she thought was supposed to get murdered.
 * She explains how she answers the door and finds “it is degrading” but she does it anyway, then she explains how she prepared the party and heard the shots (50).
 * After she hears the shots she screamed in the closet until Edmund let her out.
 * Inspector Craddock tells her she is not going to prison.
 * As the inspector leaves he runs into Patrick Simmons.
 * Craddock goes through the same process of question… again.
 * New information is revealed about the sherry bottle and how they opened a new one instead of the half full old one.
 * Patrick Simmons describes how Letitia first blamed him for the announcement, and how Miss Bunner was “scarred into fits” (52).
 * He tells Craddock he had never seen Rudi Scherz before.
 * Patrick Simmons points Craddock into the direction of Dayas Hall where he can find another witness.

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