Ivory Innocence
“Barnes and Janey that she felt unwell. It was true enough; her head felt like concrete and her stomach was in revolt. Her appearance was convincing, too: a face paler than usual, with dark shadows under haunted gray eyes that stared at her from the mirror, asking questions that were impossible to answer.Matthew sent Mrs. Barnes up with some vile concoction in a tumbler, and a message that it would do her good."Overdid it last night, did you?" the housekeeper said with a laugh. "Well, we're all ...entitled to kick over the traces once in a while. You'll be all right. Just take it easy today."Ivory drank the brew, which didn't taste as bad as it looked. She thought bleakly that if it had been poison she wouldn't have cared. Thank heaven Mrs. Barnes didn't know how very much she had "overdone" everything last night. She rested all day and didn't get up until Janey was in bed.Downstairs in the sitting room she found Matthew brooding over a glass of scotch and scribbling something on a pad. He glanced up in surprise, laid the pad aside and got to his feet, frowning."You look like a ghost.MoreLess
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