Thank you to all reviewers! Just for the record, I don't believe for a second that Mrs Lovett wanted to kill Tody but her love for Sweeney was greater than her love for Toby...unfortunately.


Mrs Lovett closed the living room door behind her and collapsed against it in tears.

They were going to have to kill the boy. She had been careless and brought out the purse.

Poor Toby had recognized Pirelli's purse and wanted to turn Mr Todd into Beadle Bamford. She had dismissed his fretting and told him that she wouldn't let anyone harm him.

She had been lying. It had broken her heart.

She didn't want to but she knew they would have to kill him.

And it was all her fault.