I did not love my husband. He was a cold and selfish man. But I did not murder him, either. After dinner last night he said he wanted to check some business papers in his study. He would have a meeting with his business partner Gerald the next morning.
He asked me for some tea. That was about nine o' clock. I was watching a rather exciting film, so I told Lucy to take it to him.
At quarter past nine Doctor Emerson called. I expected him to come earlier. I answered the front door bell. Trevor noticed the time because we were shouting in his study. He and Lucy obviously were having a serious row. So I took the Doctor into the sitting-room for a moment. Then Trevor stopped shouting. I guessed Lucy went out by the back door. Doctor Emerson went to the study. I think he wanted to persuade Trevor to go into hospital for some tests, but Trevor did not want to go. I heard my husband shouting again several times over the next twenty minutes. He called Emerson an ignorant country doctor and later he said something like, 'There's nothing you can do!' I think Lucy came back into the house while the doctor was still talking to Trevor. I heard the front door bang during a moment of quiet when Trevor was not shouting. I was tired and fed up, and went to my bedroom soon after that. My sister phoned and we were talking for ages. Itold her that I had decided to leave Trevor.