WARNING: THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT DESIGNED TO BE READ THROUGH FROM START TO FINISH, BUT TO BE READ VIA THE LINKS IN EACH SUSPECT'S MURDER FILE.

Elizabeth is an old and dear friend of mine, we are extremely close and I know Gold had upset her terribly. I was going to try and get him out of the house. But I wouldn’t stoop to murder.

Absolutely not. Vivienne is very sweet and I have a deep affection for her. I realise she was spurned and used by that odious creep, but she did not incite me to dispose of Gold.

No. I would never waste my money on such a dead loss.

I was going to go in search of Gold and teach him a bit of a lesson. I stopped in the Billiard Room to calm myself down and after several frames, I went to find Elizabeth and had a drink with her in the Study.

I saw her very briefly as she passed the door to the Billiard Room, but I didn’t speak to her.

I left it in the Billiard Room.

Only in the amount of time I spent with him, loving him. There was no financial backing on my part. Apparently he had enough money from various sources. I never asked him about it.

We got extremely close. We were lovers. In fact, we got quite intimate whilst he was in the Grange before his death.

I had a vague idea what he’d done to my step-mother’s painting which was not at my behest, I’d like to add. But I had no idea he was going to play such a nasty trick on me or the Professor.

Apart from the few occasions I left the study before the row, it remained with me all the time.

I was in the Conservatory. I opened a few of the windows and took pot-shots outside to calm myself down because Sebastian had annoyed me so much.

I think he might have been in the Billiard Room as I passed by to calm myself down, but I didn’t speak to him at all.

That horrible little man had been squeezing money out of me for the best part of a year before the events that happened here.

To be accused of plagiarism, to even fall under suspicion of doing something that serious, can spell the end of a career. It is something I did not want to deal with. As Gold said, mud sticks. Even though I was cleared of any charges, some people will always think I am guilty. And I do not want that.

Absolutely none. I had been questioned about plagiarism, but was cleared of all suspicion. Gold took this and twisted it into his fabric of lies.

Absolutely not! I would not waste what money I have on something as spectacularly stupid as that.

I took the secret passageway from the Kitchen to the Study and tried to find Gold. I was planning to make him pay for that horrible painting, but luckily for me and him, he was not there.

Yes. I was going to use it to threaten Gold and tell him to stop blackmailing me, but I didn’t find him in the Study, so I left it in there.

I was coerced into it by my step-daughter, Vivienne. I would like it to go on record that I had certain misgivings about it.

Absolutely not! Despite Vivienne’s best attempts to get me to sign money over, I refused.

I was appalled. Upset. Sickened by it. After all the generosity I’d shown him by letting him disrupt my house in such a way, it was a terrible way to repay me.

Well, Mike and I are extremely close. I presume he meant he would see what he could do to get Sebastian Gold out of my house and away from Vivienne. That’s all.

I admit I exacted my own little revenge on Gold by destroying several of the pictures in the Ballroom, but I didn’t touch the ones in the Lounge. When Blanche came in and told me about that, I was shocked.

I ran from the room very upset and went to my Study to calm down and have a few drinks. I went to see Gold - we argued breifly and I threaten him with a nearby dagger. I managed to resist temptation though and left with the dagger and headed for the Ballroom.

It was a letter from the parish council. We were due a visit. They were sending someone down in a few weeks. It had me concerned. It always does.

I’m afraid I misappropriated a little of the parish funds, but was guaranteed a return. Clearly not now.

I was going to threaten Gold with it, make him give me back the money he owes. Thankfully, Mrs White came in and stopped me.

I went first of all to the Lounge and then the Ballroom to have a look at Gold’s paintings. I thought if I was investing in him, I might as well see the work. I wasn’t impressed but they were better than I thought they’d be.

What an extraordinary question! I went to the Library looking for Gold. As we talked, I accidentally touched one of his canvasses in progress. I was wiping my hands of the paint as I walked in.

Yes, she came out of the Library as I went in.

Yes. I forgot I had it with me and left it in the Lounge.

Oh, not too long. A few months. Nothing much, just little ornaments and such like.

She had mentioned it a few times, but I don’t think she suspected me. We have a lot of functions here at the Grange which means I have to have a bit of help; so I get some girls from the village in to lend a hand. I think she might have thought it was one of them.

I saw Miss Vivienne and that terrible Sebastian Gold together... in a clinch... kissing and what-not. I was so shocked I dropped the bits and pieces and had to go for a drink.

You don’t think I had time to stop and look at those, do you? I had preparations to make for dinner and the functions that evening. I had things to cook and such like.

Not really. I don’t know much about art. I was told he was a dead cert to invest in, so I did. I don’t really care much for art anyway. Just the money.

No. I’d prefer to confess everything to Mrs Peacock rather than have her find out from im.