A Place of Hiding (2003)
“Paul's dad said to him. He clasped Paul's ankle and smiled fondly, but Paul could see the regret in his eyes. He'd seen it even before his father had asked him to come upstairs to his bedroom for “a bit of a heart-to-heart, Paulie.” The telephone had rung, Ol Fielder had answered it, had said, “Yessir, Mr. Forrest. Boy's sitting right here,” and had listened long, his face going through a slow alteration from pleasure to concern to veiled disappointment. “Ah well,” he'd said at the conclusion o...f Dominic Forrest's comments, “it's still a good sum, and you won't see our Paul turning his nose up at it, I can tell you that.”
Afterwards, he'd asked Paul to follow him upstairs, ignoring Billy's “Wha's this about, then? Our Paulie not turning into the next Richard Branson af'er all?”
They'd gone to Paul's room, where Paul had sat with his back to the headboard of his bed. His father sat on the edge of it, explaining to him that what Mr. Forrest had previously thought would be an inheritance of some seven hundred thousand pounds had in reality turned out to be an amount in the vicinity of sixty thousand.MoreLess
Afterwards, he'd asked Paul to follow him upstairs, ignoring Billy's “Wha's this about, then? Our Paulie not turning into the next Richard Branson af'er all?”
They'd gone to Paul's room, where Paul had sat with his back to the headboard of his bed. His father sat on the edge of it, explaining to him that what Mr. Forrest had previously thought would be an inheritance of some seven hundred thousand pounds had in reality turned out to be an amount in the vicinity of sixty thousand.MoreLess
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