5. Getting Away With It
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
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The Power of Love
I think it really helps to interpret these cases and the choices that these women had or didn't have. So Smith has this partner who is chosen for her and she needs to kind of get rid of the lover who's hanging on. And she does not want to expose that she's also been sleeping with that lover. Bravo wants to recover some of her respectability in society and she wants to have a new relationship with her parents. If she did commit murder, she was motivated entirely by this need to become a respectable married woman as everybody expected her to do. Bad choice, though, Florence. I wish she'd known more about him before she went with him, thinking he'd give her
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