Cathy

“was not going to tell till she was sure…. And finally the attack on herself. An almost incredible performance considering that she might easily have killed herself. But then, childlike, she had never considered such a possibility. She was the heroine. The heroine isn’t killed. Yet there had been a clue there—the traces of earth on the seat of the old chair in the washhouse. Josephine was the only person who would have had”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House