Appleby And Honeybath (2012)
“He had made an abortive attempt to do so already, and it was in his court that the ball still bounced. To be led by the hand, so to speak, into his host’s presence, and there to stand silent while his disturbing discovery was recounted by a third person, would be altogether undignified. That Appleby happened to be a retired policeman, and so more habituated to talking about corpses, was neither here nor there.
Appleby didn’t precisely articulate these remarks, but he conveyed the sense of them,... all the same. So thus it had to be. Honeybath felt the occasion to be awkward, but didn’t really take much account of the fact. The one thing not doubtful about the whole affair was its gravity. Embarrassments, therefore, didn’t much matter.
They found that Grinton and his wife were now alone in the drawing-room, except for the presence of a guest called Hillam. Hillam, a middle-aged man of no considerable presence whether physical or otherwise, was understood to be a Curator of something somewhere, and a recent acquisition to Dolly Grinton’s circle of acquaintance.MoreLess
Appleby didn’t precisely articulate these remarks, but he conveyed the sense of them,... all the same. So thus it had to be. Honeybath felt the occasion to be awkward, but didn’t really take much account of the fact. The one thing not doubtful about the whole affair was its gravity. Embarrassments, therefore, didn’t much matter.
They found that Grinton and his wife were now alone in the drawing-room, except for the presence of a guest called Hillam. Hillam, a middle-aged man of no considerable presence whether physical or otherwise, was understood to be a Curator of something somewhere, and a recent acquisition to Dolly Grinton’s circle of acquaintance.MoreLess
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