Although Pitt aspires to higher social standing, he requests that he be treated as a middle class working man. His education and manners let him wander in upper-class circles, while his dress and impolite tactics keep them from becoming entirely comfortable with him. Pitt is the educated son of a gamekeeper and cook. A young police inspector, Thomas Pitt, has been investigating these crimes and soon arrives to question the Ellison household. Only when the third murder happens to a member of the Ellison household do they believe that these crimes might not be a simple case of robbery or jealousy. Again the idea that these women did something to deserve this end is easier to accept than the knowledge that it could happen to anyone else. Although the victim was of the upper class she quickly gains a reputation as having been a bad seed.Ī second death occurs, this time a servant. Finally, tiring of the game, Charlotte comes out and tells her aunt what she has heard about the murder. Even though Susannah has recently been out of town and is unaware of the murder, it is bad form for proper women to talk about such matters and so they are careful not to say anything too direct about the way the daughter of a friend was garroted and cut open. In an upper class salon on Cater Street several women discuss, in oblique terms, the death of a local girl.
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