Betrayal

Authors: Clare Francis

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“It’ll make her ill. I mean, worse than she is already. The dirt, the conditions, the filthy sanitary arrangements. No lavatories, for God’s sake. It’ll kill her. Just kill her.’ ‘I appreciate your concerns, Hugh,’ Tingwall ventured gently. ‘But I did make full representations. I sent in the doctor’s letter. I checked with the medical staff and they’re fully aware of her condition. She’s under permanent supervision.’ He added in a transparent attempt at cheerfulness, ‘And she seemed okay when I ...last saw her. She said her room was all right. She said they were looking after her.’ The fact that Ginny had talked to Tingwall when, on both of my visits, she had hardly spoken a word to me shouldn’t have bothered me quite as much as it did, yet I couldn’t shake off the feeling that she was excluding me on purpose. ‘We have to get her out of there,’ I insisted unreasonably.
‘We’ll do our best, Hugh.’ We had only just begun our meeting yet already I was facing the wall of helplessness that seemed to dominate all my recent discussions with Tingwall.MoreLess Read More Read Less