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As soon as the doctor had pronounced the dead man officially to be dead, Lord Tattingwood called him to his wife. He said he had just broken the terrible news to her, and was alarmed by the result. She had fainted dead away, and was too long coming to for his liking.
When she came out other swoon she asked that Zarl should come to her and remain with her during the doctor's visit. It was to Zarl that she turned and clung rather than to the family connections such as Miss Bitcalf-Spillbeans, who loathed monkeys. I consoled myself with Percy, who was full of capers. Suspicion and danger seemed to have removed from him, but I was embedded in the terrible drama, one of those to give evidence, one of those receiving censure for what I had omitted to do, and most likely being suspected of what I knew not.