Don’t stop it for anything.”

On the screen, Rosamund came in.

She came from the side hall, from the kitchen, and she came fast — not running, but at the pace of a person who has heard a tone of voice from another room and is already moving before she has decided to.

She had a dish towel in her hand and she put it down on the console table by the door without breaking stride, which was, Chadworth realized later, so that both her hands would be free and empty and visible.

She stopped four feet inside the room, angled her body, and put herself on the line between Sabina and the girls.