A Judgement in Stone (2012)
“Only a week before he went on holiday an envelope containing a letter from his son Peter showed a glue smear under the flap, and a parcel from the book club to which Jacqueline subscribed had obviously been opened and retied with string. But he hesitated to take action without positive proof.
He hadn’t set foot in the shop or used the post office since the day, some three years before, when, in front of an interested audience of farm labourers’ wives, Joan had gaily reproached him for living wi...th a divorced woman and exhorted him to abandon his sinful life and come to God. After that he had posted his letters in Stantwich and given Joan no more than a stiff nod when he met her in the village. He would have been appalled had he known she had been in his bedroom, fingered his clothes, and toured his house.
But when he and his family returned from holiday there was no sign that Eunice had defected from her established ways.
“I don’t believe she’s been out of the house, darling,”MoreLess
He hadn’t set foot in the shop or used the post office since the day, some three years before, when, in front of an interested audience of farm labourers’ wives, Joan had gaily reproached him for living wi...th a divorced woman and exhorted him to abandon his sinful life and come to God. After that he had posted his letters in Stantwich and given Joan no more than a stiff nod when he met her in the village. He would have been appalled had he known she had been in his bedroom, fingered his clothes, and toured his house.
But when he and his family returned from holiday there was no sign that Eunice had defected from her established ways.
“I don’t believe she’s been out of the house, darling,”MoreLess
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