"Are you saying that Corbett killed the previous Duke and Rosina helped her kill him?" repeated Melva after she spent some time taking in the surprising revelation Rosetta had just dropped on her.
The more she thought about it, the more unbelievable it sounded. They did not seem like people who were capable of taking lives. Vance gave her more of that impression, and he indeed had used to kill people. At least when Vance had admitted, it had been easier for her to accept.
Corbett was sly, but she had never expected he would be capable of killing. Rosina was friendly to her, thus it was even harder to believe. There was a reason why Melva found it difficult to trust people.
"And she had the nerve to visit me like she did nothing wrong," added Rosetta spitefully.
"That does not make sense. Why did His Grace let people who killed his father stay inside his manor?" Melva was unable to find an explainable reason for this.