Andrew: Lord of Despair
“Douglas obligingly sat and waited for Astrid to fill the silence.
“My brother uses the same tactic,” she said. “He sits, silent as a sphinx, unnerving people with his odd eyes, and soon they start telling him anything he asks simply to make him and his infernal silences go away.”
And Fairly no doubt turned his odd-eyed stare on his own younger sibling, suggesting Astrid was due a small pang of sympathy.
“I played cards with your brother this afternoon. You would have been amused at ...our manly stratagems and posturing. I should hope the both of us were.” He fell silent, not to make her squirm, but to give her time to collect her thoughts, because apparently, embezzlement, adultery, and bereavement were not to be the limit of their cheery little discussion.
“What would you have me do about this matter, Douglas?”
He could dither and insinuate, or he could be blunt and get them both off this cold, hard bench all the sooner.MoreLess
“My brother uses the same tactic,” she said. “He sits, silent as a sphinx, unnerving people with his odd eyes, and soon they start telling him anything he asks simply to make him and his infernal silences go away.”
And Fairly no doubt turned his odd-eyed stare on his own younger sibling, suggesting Astrid was due a small pang of sympathy.
“I played cards with your brother this afternoon. You would have been amused at ...our manly stratagems and posturing. I should hope the both of us were.” He fell silent, not to make her squirm, but to give her time to collect her thoughts, because apparently, embezzlement, adultery, and bereavement were not to be the limit of their cheery little discussion.
“What would you have me do about this matter, Douglas?”
He could dither and insinuate, or he could be blunt and get them both off this cold, hard bench all the sooner.MoreLess
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