Night After Night
“Grayle slows the Mini, brings down her window, identifies herself.
The woman nods, and Grayle leans over and lets her into the car.
‘This wasn’t forecast,’ the woman says.
She doesn’t lower her glistening hood until they’re out on the bottom road. Grayle glances sideways and finds she doesn’t look like someone called Poppy Stringer. Her hair is long and fine and near-white. Her face is long, too, and serious. She wears no make-up, nor really needs it. She’s like some mature noblewoman from a Re...naissance painting.
Grayle called her an hour ago, after first checking with Jo Shepherd to make sure nothing crazy occurred in the night. Poppy Stringer told her she’d be attending communion at St Peter’s, ten thirty. Too late; Defford would be screaming by then. Eventually, she said she’d meet Grayle in the lane and they would walk.
But it’s too wet and windy for walking, if you need to talk at the same time.
‘I’d have come to your house, Mrs Stringer.’ ‘Doesn’t matter.’ It’s a local accent, but refined, voice low and sure.MoreLess
The woman nods, and Grayle leans over and lets her into the car.
‘This wasn’t forecast,’ the woman says.
She doesn’t lower her glistening hood until they’re out on the bottom road. Grayle glances sideways and finds she doesn’t look like someone called Poppy Stringer. Her hair is long and fine and near-white. Her face is long, too, and serious. She wears no make-up, nor really needs it. She’s like some mature noblewoman from a Re...naissance painting.
Grayle called her an hour ago, after first checking with Jo Shepherd to make sure nothing crazy occurred in the night. Poppy Stringer told her she’d be attending communion at St Peter’s, ten thirty. Too late; Defford would be screaming by then. Eventually, she said she’d meet Grayle in the lane and they would walk.
But it’s too wet and windy for walking, if you need to talk at the same time.
‘I’d have come to your house, Mrs Stringer.’ ‘Doesn’t matter.’ It’s a local accent, but refined, voice low and sure.MoreLess
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