Lady Agnes Mystery Vol.2. Andrea Japp

      She sighed uneasily as she said:

      ‘I can ensure that they don’t for the moment, brother. I have firmly insisted that Madame de Beaufort’s final orders should be carried out to the letter, but … if the newly appointed Abbess is …’

      ‘One of them,’ he finished her sentence. ‘And I am sure she will be. My aunt was murdered so that she could be replaced by one of their accomplices. I fear that her arrival at Clairets is imminent. Therefore we have very little time. If you find the manuscripts, destroy the treatise on necromancy. I regret not having already done so.’