The+Truth

Chapter 22: The Truth
 * As Inspector Craddock "turns on" Edmund Swettenham, Mitzi sneaks into the kitchen to wash the dishes (206).
 * As Mitzi is washing the dishes, Miss Blacklock walks into the kitchen and calls Mitzi a liar and tells Mitzi that she should not wash dishes with so little water.
 * Mitzi turns the taps on more and offers to admit to lying to the Inspector. Miss Blacklock says that the Inspector knows already that Mitzi had lied, and that only she knows that Mitzi was telling the truth "for once" (206).
 * Miss Blacklock come up from behind Mitzi and attempts to drown her in "the water filled sink" (206).
 * As Mitzi thrashed and struggled, Dora Bunner's voice came from behind them saying for "Lotty" to "don't do it" (207).
 * Miss Blacklock, hearing this, screams and releases Mitzi, and cries in hysteria for Dora to forgive her and runs for the door which was blocked by Sergeant Fletcher.
 * Miss Marple steps out from her hiding place in the broom cupboard and states how she could always mimic people's voices.
 * Sergeant Fletcher arrests "Letitia Blacklock", which Miss Marple corrects to be "Charlotte Blacklock" (207).
 * Miss Marple reveals that under the choker of pearls, that Miss Blacklock always wore, is a scar from her goiter operation.
 * Charlotte Blacklock sits and cries saying that Miss Marple should not have "made Dora's voice come" and that she really did love Dora (207).
 * Once Mitzi was recovered enough to speak, she "was lyrical with self-praise" (207).
 * Miss Hinchliffe rushes to the scene and leapt upon the weeping Charlotte Blacklock muttering to let her at "she who killed Amy Murgatoryd", and was being held back by Sergeant Fletcher (208).
 * Charlotte Blacklock regrets killing anyone, especially Dora, and continues to weep.

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