t rid of the evidence. “Mrs. Hale snatches the box and puts it in the pocket of her big coat.”Mrs. Hale doesn’t really know the suspect and has never known the victim. Mrs. Peters is the wife of a sheriff, she has never even met the Wrights ..yet she has sympathy for Mrs. Wright.. her thoughts on her dead kitten, of her lost child. Neither woman is being objective. Together they are in agreement. Together, they choose to protect Mrs. Wright, a poor, suffering, lonely woman, based not on fact, but of their own feelings. ...
