A Fox Inside (2012)
“She was not sure how much she wanted to tell anybody. But she could remember it all.
It had been so fatally easy. It was the beginning of the war, so Luke was away, but even if he had not been he could not have rescued her. Dumbly she believed, or hoped against hope, that someone would rescue her, and the conditions of her imprisonment were so familiar to her that she could not even say rescue from what.
She knew all about Charles. She could not remember now when she had not known. But ...she shrank from admitting it, for the less she knew about her mother the safer she felt. She tried to ignore Charles. Then, when he had first begun to pay attention to her, or even before that, when once she had caught him watching her closely, she had thought only that it was something Lily had told him to do, for reasons of her own.
And then, as he slowly moved up and manœuvred into position she realized what he was up to. And in that big house she couldn’t help but eavesdrop.MoreLess
It had been so fatally easy. It was the beginning of the war, so Luke was away, but even if he had not been he could not have rescued her. Dumbly she believed, or hoped against hope, that someone would rescue her, and the conditions of her imprisonment were so familiar to her that she could not even say rescue from what.
She knew all about Charles. She could not remember now when she had not known. But ...she shrank from admitting it, for the less she knew about her mother the safer she felt. She tried to ignore Charles. Then, when he had first begun to pay attention to her, or even before that, when once she had caught him watching her closely, she had thought only that it was something Lily had told him to do, for reasons of her own.
And then, as he slowly moved up and manœuvred into position she realized what he was up to. And in that big house she couldn’t help but eavesdrop.MoreLess
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