"Can you prove you didn't?"
"I can say I didn't," Peggy said. She looked for a long moment at Pam Noth. "Is it any good?"
What remarkable eyes she has, Pam thought. They must be inches long.
"Yes," Pam said. She was surprised, momentarily, at hearing herself speak the word. "You know why?" she then said, and now she included all of them. "Because nobody could be as guilty as she looks."
(from Murder Is Served, by Richard and Frances Lockridge)
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