Mrs Bantry doesn’t know what Marina was looking at, whether it was the painting of madonna and child hanging on the wall or some of the other guests that kept coming. The two ladies talk about Mrs Babcock’s death, and Mrs Bantry describes what she witnessed, including the strange look Marina had when Heather Babcock was talking to her. The next day Miss Marple hears the news from her maid, and shortly afterwards Mrs Bantry comes to see her. But then Mrs Bantry and other ladies have around the house, and when they return to the room where the reception is taking place, she hears that Mrs Babcock has taken ill, and shortly afterwards to everybody’s shock she dies. This might have forgotten if nothing had happened. Mrs Bantry, who has been watching them, notices that Marina is hardly listening to Heather Babcock, and instead Marina is looking over the other woman’s shoulder with a frozen look of utter horror. Marina receives Heather with her usual charm, and the latter keeps chattering about the time when she met Marina in Bermuda despite having the flu. Mrs Bantry is one of the chosen ones to go into the house, and other guests are Heather Babcock and her husband. Marina Gregg and her husband have a reception for friends and some members of the St John ambulance, who have been allowed to use the grounds of the hall for a picnic to collect funds.
The murder takes place in Gossington Hall.
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