As soon as the door clicked shut behind Ada, Arabella sprung off her chair and launched a scouting session throughout her room.
She ruffled the bed sheets and flapped them one more time before lifting the heavy mattress with much difficulty to see if something lay between it and the bed frame.
Every box, drawer and surface beneath furniture was passed through the teeth of a thin comb.
The bathroom was next in line. Arabella inspected every surface, and pot within that space, lingering on the bathtub for a little longer than the rest considering it was there that her locket was found only sometime before that moment.
The tap water ran and felt the same as it usually did. Nothing seemed out of place, no matter the number of times she went over everything searching for… Anything that would stand out.
What could Edna truly have been doing there the previous evening?
