On the eve of great gossip, before one begins to make up the rest of the story, it is only good etiquette to acknowledge what is known. It is known that Lady Beaumont had ordered the assassination of Lucy Wickshire. It is known that Lucy Wickshire's nanny was killed in the assassination. It is known; and the methods of which this is known remains unknown, that Mrs Mclears at the orders of Lucy Wickshire, made the entire Beaumont family disappear. What remains unknown is how she did. Now that is acknowledged; without evidence and great reliance on shaky accounts of that midnight, I wish to establish what will become fact.
