The estate manager, who had known for three months that Sabina had removed Rosamund’s authority to approve household purchases and had never mentioned it to anyone, because Sabina outranked a housekeeper socially and everyone in that building had understood the score.

Two other members of the household staff who had watched a woman speak to two children that way for four months and had said nothing to anyone.

He kept Ines, who had told Rosamund in January that she was afraid to say anything because she needed the job and had two kids of her own, and who had then quietly started finding reasons to be in whatever room Sabina was in, alongside Rosamund, without ever once discussing it out loud.

Chadworth found out about that from Rosamund’s notebook.