For better or worse, Wysteria is very good at filling silences. Even terrible ones like this one, where it might be better to say nothing at all instead of:

"I should have made him cut his anchor out. If that's really the only way to stop it, then we should see that everyone does it right away. Oh, if was horrible," she says, blubbering stupidly. There are hot tears against her palm. She can feel them, and feels stupider for them. "His rooms. They were all just perfectly ordinary. All his shirts and things just in their places. I felt like some kind of thief rifling around until I found the letters. I should have just let the servants do it. Or Miss Niehaus. I didn't look at you when you were dead, and I shouldn't have gone looking for him either."