Hurrah! Inspector Hamilton has arrived. He contributes such a nice English country house murder tone to this storyline. I just love him.
As Roger laughed and sneered at Quentin, I thought it might be fun to play this episode back-to-back with one of the many 1897 episodes in which Quentin laughed and sneered at Edward. Both ways work just beautifully.
Bravo to Maggie for brushing aside the irrelevant Bruno invasion and getting to the point: "Do you really think I'm a witch?" And golly, Quentin pulled his "I don't want to talk about it" act again! Unbelievable. And interesting. My understanding is that it used to be that "I don't want to talk about it" was reserved for discussing anything and everything to do with Angelique. And now Quentin probably has no idea that his suspicion of Maggie has anything to do with Angelique. So "I don't want to talk about it" is spreading, and will eventually take over his life - if his life is long enough for that. On the whole, I'd say that being executed for Bruno's murder might be a blessing in disguise for him.
Whoever Angelique's murderer may have been, he or she must have been utterly baffled when Cyrus attributed the death to a stroke. Probably the murderer waited by the phone for hours, expecting to be blackmailed - except that virtuous Cyrus would never have dreamed of blackmailing anyone. But why didn't John Yaeger use Cyrus's knowledge? And what are we to make of the argument that Cyrus had with Quentin, right after the restaging of the séance, when Cyrus insisted that Angelique might have been murdered and Quentin vigorously denied the possibility?
When I hear people talking about the fatal hatpin, I keep thinking of a line from My Fair Lady: "Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat." It doesn't quite fit, but I think of it anyway.
