Death At Hallows End (2003)
“I cannot remember my mother actually saying that my father was dead but it was with this supposition that I reached my teens.
My mother seems in retrospect very young—she was in fact twenty-nine when I was born and died at fifty, two years ago. She was a cheerful person who enjoyed running her successful little business and was popular in the district. She sent me to the Queen’s School as a day boy and I became captain of the school teams, both Rugger and Cricket.
At fifteen a woman friend of my mother’s told me that I was old Grossiter’s natural son, that my mother had been his housekeeper and had been set up in her shop by Grossiter just after I was born. This disturbed and perplexed me a good deal but I did not ask my mother about it. Nor did I ever hear my mother speak of Grossiter except casually as a local character.
I was just twenty when mother died. She had told me that she wanted me to sell the sweet shop after she was gone because there would be enough money then for me to ...complete my education and fulfill her dearest wish by entering a profession.MoreLess
My mother seems in retrospect very young—she was in fact twenty-nine when I was born and died at fifty, two years ago. She was a cheerful person who enjoyed running her successful little business and was popular in the district. She sent me to the Queen’s School as a day boy and I became captain of the school teams, both Rugger and Cricket.
At fifteen a woman friend of my mother’s told me that I was old Grossiter’s natural son, that my mother had been his housekeeper and had been set up in her shop by Grossiter just after I was born. This disturbed and perplexed me a good deal but I did not ask my mother about it. Nor did I ever hear my mother speak of Grossiter except casually as a local character.
I was just twenty when mother died. She had told me that she wanted me to sell the sweet shop after she was gone because there would be enough money then for me to ...complete my education and fulfill her dearest wish by entering a profession.MoreLess
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