No Man's Nightingale (2013)
“He had had all that heart-searching and lying awake at night and bad dreams over taking away Thora Kilmartin’s letter and now it was due to happen all over again. Should he tell Maxine that he had imparted to Burden what she had told him? That she might say she understood he had to do that was out of the question, that she might recognise he had a duty to do that was impossible. And yet he had really had no choice. About that business with the letter he had simply told Burden after a night of a...gony. Now he had to tell Maxine before the sun went down. Or, more realistically, resolve to tell her in the morning in such a way as to make deviating from this decision impossible. There was only one way to do this.
He found his wife in the conservatory, examining one after another of the tired midwinter plants while outside the window a thin drizzle of snow fell.
‘What shall I do?’ he said when he had told her of his dilemma which was almost a dilemma no longer. ‘If I confess to her that I’ve told Mike she’ll almost certainly leave.MoreLess
He found his wife in the conservatory, examining one after another of the tired midwinter plants while outside the window a thin drizzle of snow fell.
‘What shall I do?’ he said when he had told her of his dilemma which was almost a dilemma no longer. ‘If I confess to her that I’ve told Mike she’ll almost certainly leave.MoreLess
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