And a dark night for dark memories it is. He takes the book, gentle, doesn't deign to open it and pour through it right in front of her. It will prove...interesting reading in the morrow.

That the Comtesse suspects her own valet, the one closest to her? (The one, if he had to pick one of this menagerie so far, that has moved to the top of his suspect list from merely talking to the woman?) Makes this all the more interesting. And serious.

Just because she heard nothing more does not mean nothing happened. Certainly more than one could be involved. The (former?) Crow gardener, for one. The butcher and her ornery nature. And if nothing happened to them on the estate grounds, something could have happened off them.

"Has she any reason that you can think of? A motive to do...anything against the Inquisition or to anyone around you? To you?"