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Carrie nodded.
‘What did you think of her?’
‘Thought she wuz lovely,’ said Carrie.
‘Really? Because a few people have told us she was spoiled.’
‘Well… maybe a bit. She wuz still sweet.’
‘We’ve heard you spent a lot of time with her.’
‘Yeah,’ said Carrie, after another brief pause, ‘I s’pose I did.’
‘Emily told me,’ said Robin, ‘that Daiyu used to boast you and she were going to go away and set up house together. Is that true?’
‘No!’ said Carrie, sounding shocked.
‘Daiyu made that up, did she?’ said Strike.
‘If – if she said it, yeah.’
‘Why d’you think she’d claim she was going to leave to live with you?’
‘I dunno.’
‘Maybe to make the other children jealous?’ suggested Robin.
‘Maybe,’ agreed Carrie, ‘yeah.’
‘How did you like the Waces?’ asked Strike.
‘I… thought the same as everyone else.’
‘What d’you mean by that?’
‘Well, they wuz… they could be strict,’ said Carrie, ‘but it wuz for a good cause, I s’pose.’
‘You thought that, did you?’ said Strike. ‘That the church’s cause was good?’
‘It did good things. Some good things.’
‘Did you have any particular friends at Chapman Farm?’
‘No,’ said Carrie. ‘You weren’ supposed to have special friends.’
She was holding her water tightly. Its surface was shivering.
‘All right, let’s talk about the morning you took Daiyu to Cromer,’ said Strike. ‘How did that come about?’
Carrie cleared her throat.
‘She jus’ wan’ed to go with me to the beach.’
‘Had you ever taken any other children to the beach?’
‘No.’
‘But you said yes to Daiyu?’
