Ashes to Ashes
“‘Milly, doll, don’t—’ ‘Don’t what, Charlie?’ she said with a laugh in her voice. She put one of her small fingers on the trigger.
Mr Rolls, whose handsome face was now visibly pale even through the red and gold lights from the fires down below, looked across at us and said, ‘Smith, I thought you drugged the bloody child!’ ‘I did!’ Mr Smith replied. ‘As God is my witness! A pipe of opium, as I told you, a—’ ‘Why don’t you tell them, Charlie?’ the girl said to Webb. There was a look in her eyes I... hadn’t seen just minutes earlier. It was the kind of sobriety a person doesn’t associate with people who use drugs like opium. Webb, I noticed, couldn’t meet this new, sober gaze.
Still looking at Webb, Milly said, ‘Cat got your tongue, Charlie?’ She laughed. ‘As Charlie well knows, one pipe ain’t going to do for me,’ she said. ‘Been smoking four years now. He’s been giving it to me! I can sober up from it just like that, these days!’ She snapped her fingers up at Mr Rolls’s face.MoreLess
Mr Rolls, whose handsome face was now visibly pale even through the red and gold lights from the fires down below, looked across at us and said, ‘Smith, I thought you drugged the bloody child!’ ‘I did!’ Mr Smith replied. ‘As God is my witness! A pipe of opium, as I told you, a—’ ‘Why don’t you tell them, Charlie?’ the girl said to Webb. There was a look in her eyes I... hadn’t seen just minutes earlier. It was the kind of sobriety a person doesn’t associate with people who use drugs like opium. Webb, I noticed, couldn’t meet this new, sober gaze.
Still looking at Webb, Milly said, ‘Cat got your tongue, Charlie?’ She laughed. ‘As Charlie well knows, one pipe ain’t going to do for me,’ she said. ‘Been smoking four years now. He’s been giving it to me! I can sober up from it just like that, these days!’ She snapped her fingers up at Mr Rolls’s face.MoreLess
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