Endless Night (2011)
“Someone whom the old peat-cutting man had taken to be Mrs. Esther Lee had been seen going up towards the woods that morning.
“You know the old woman,” I said. “Do you actually think that she would have been capable of causing an accident by deliberate malice?”
“I can’t really believe so, Mike,” he said. “To do a thing like that you need a very strong motive. Revenge for some personal injury caused to you. Something like that. And what had Ellie ever done to her? Nothing.”
“It seems crazy, I kno...w. Why was she constantly appearing in that queer way, threatening Ellie, telling her to go away? She seemed to have a grudge against her, but how could she have had a grudge? She’d never met Ellie or seen her before. What was Ellie to her but a perfectly strange American? There’s no past history, no link between them.”
“I know, I know,” said Phillpot. “I can’t help feeling, Mike, that there’s something here that we don’t undertand. I don’t know how much your wife was over in England previous to her marriage.MoreLess
“You know the old woman,” I said. “Do you actually think that she would have been capable of causing an accident by deliberate malice?”
“I can’t really believe so, Mike,” he said. “To do a thing like that you need a very strong motive. Revenge for some personal injury caused to you. Something like that. And what had Ellie ever done to her? Nothing.”
“It seems crazy, I kno...w. Why was she constantly appearing in that queer way, threatening Ellie, telling her to go away? She seemed to have a grudge against her, but how could she have had a grudge? She’d never met Ellie or seen her before. What was Ellie to her but a perfectly strange American? There’s no past history, no link between them.”
“I know, I know,” said Phillpot. “I can’t help feeling, Mike, that there’s something here that we don’t undertand. I don’t know how much your wife was over in England previous to her marriage.MoreLess
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