“Annie hurried over with a candle and opened the window. He slipped through in the wink of an eye, having been trained from childhood to get inside houses by every means but the door. She hastened him from the back room to the front. A quick glance told him why: the back room was her bedchamber. The front room was the kitchen. Annie stood clasping and unclasping her fingers. “Should—should I make some tea, or ought we to go—upstairs?” “Biz’ness afore pleasure,” he said briskly. She l...it a second candle and gave it to him. They went past the shuttered shop on the ground floor to the office above. “Do you have the keys?” she asked. “Got ’em.” He produced a brass ring with several keys on it. “Which one undubs this door?” Annie touched his arm. “You—you didn’t have to hurt Pa, did you?” “Bless your bright eyes, no!”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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