Chapter Two Summary

The heroine, Lily Bard, tends to Marie Hofstettler twice a week. Marie is an eighty-five-year-old woman who lives at the Shakespeare Garden Apartments. Lily is at Mrs. Hofstettler's apartment doing her chores when the radio news announces that the dead body found in the park is that of Pardon Albee, the apartment building's owner and landlord. Marie is terribly upset by the news. Lily is thinking about last night when she found the body. Marie calls the police telling them that she had been with Albee the day before.

Soon Chief Friedrich is knocking at Marie's door. It turns out that the "Claude" Lily called anonymously about the dead body is the town's new Police Chief. Lily lets the Chief in, and is not overjoyed to see him. She tries to remain as quiet as possible so the Chief does not...