Lucy Beale

[maidmarian]

For Emma to have insisted it was still murder appears to me to mean that the blow was deliberate even though it probably wasn't meant to kill (from what I've read, if it was truly an accident it would be manslaughter at the most). That means there was some serious anger involved. I wonder what could have happened between themp.

perhaps Jane found out Lucy had been supplying
someone she loved./ had affection for
Or thought Lucy had left drugs where a young
child living in/ visiting house could find them!