A New Lease of Death
“The Banns of Marriage IF HE HAD been asked to predict the future of such a one as Theresa Painter, what would he have foreseen for her? Children like her, Wexford reflected as he recovered from his second shock, children like Painter’s little girl started life with a liability and a stain. The surviving parent, well-meaning relatives and cruel schoolfellows often made matters worse. He had hardly thought about the fate of the child until today. Now, thinking quickly, he supposed he would have c...ounted her lucky to have become an anonymous manual worker with perhaps already a couple of petty convictions.
Instead to Theresa Painter had apparently come the greatest blessings of civilized life: brains, advanced education, beauty, friendship with people like this vicar, an engagement to this vicar’s son.
Wexford cast his mind back to the first of only three encounters with Mrs Painter. A quarter to eight it had been on that Sunday in September. He and the sergeant with him had knocked on the door at the foot of the coach house stairs and Mrs Painter had come down to let them in.MoreLess
Instead to Theresa Painter had apparently come the greatest blessings of civilized life: brains, advanced education, beauty, friendship with people like this vicar, an engagement to this vicar’s son.
Wexford cast his mind back to the first of only three encounters with Mrs Painter. A quarter to eight it had been on that Sunday in September. He and the sergeant with him had knocked on the door at the foot of the coach house stairs and Mrs Painter had come down to let them in.MoreLess
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