Enter Pale Death
“Joe said kindly. “You favour your left foot. Not a particularly adventurous guess—most coppers have them.” He found he was reluctant to leave go of the image of the young woman they’d just encountered. “That’s a wonderful girl! I wasn’t happy to hear her call herself an ‘old maid.’ ”“Nor was I. She’s wrong on the first half anyway. Not what you’d really call old. She was twenty-seven last week.”“Now how would you know that?”“While you were being attended to in the rose garden I peeked inside th...e birthday cards lined up on the mantelpiece.”“So—hardly old then.”“No. And she was misleading us on the second half too, unless I mistake.”“Now how would you know that?” Joe said again but his voice now conveyed a chilly rebuke rather than a question. A woman’s honour would always be defended by Joe whatever the circumstances. Whoever the woman.Hunnyton picked up the warning and, as Joe had come to expect, backed away. Advance, retreat, concede territory, disarm, advance again, eyes averted.MoreLess
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