I And My True Love
“Sylvia was totally unworried. There was colour in her cheeks, a smile in her eyes. The bitterness had gone from her voice; the drawn, haggard look had vanished from her face. Kate’s nervousness disappeared; and the depression that had settled over her, when she sat in the library and waited for a telephone call to end, suddenly lifted. She waited impatiently for dinner to be over, for Walter to stop hovering round them in his striped waistcoat like a slightly exhausted humming-bird. Then, she t...hought, we can talk a little, behave normally again.So it came as a shock when Sylvia glanced at the clock in the drawing-room, where they had settled comfortably in front of a blazing fire, and suddenly rose to her feet. “Kate,” she said gently, “I’m going out. I shan’t be too long. Perhaps an hour. Can you find something to do here until I get back?”“Of course,” Kate said stiffly.“I’m going to see Amy Clark.”There’s no need to tell me lies, Kate thought unhappily. And then she wondered if the excuse wasn’t meant for someone else.MoreLess
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