With Roly’s agreement, Fran used the typewriter in the estate office to produce the letter, using cheap, plain white stationery which she had acquired from the post office in Frencombe. Naturally she included no signature or return address.
You did not see her, but Imogen saw you in the woods that day. She saw you pushing the old man along the path and she followed you to the grotto. That’s how she found the diamond. I can see to it that the child doesn’t breathe a word to anyone else, but I would need to be sure of avoiding financial hardship. £500 should do the trick. That’s a lot of money, but I could accept small instalments. Perhaps we should discuss terms? I will be waiting in the grotto at ten o’clock on Thursday evening.