Outrageous Fortune
“She tried to call out, to push him away, but her voice choked under his grip. The blood sang in her ears, and the darkness was full of fiery sparks. Then quite suddenly she was free. She sat back on her heels, gasping for breath. The sparks died out, and she heard him say in a sharp, bewildered voice, “Who’s there?”
He repeated the question again at once.
“Who’s there? Speak, can’t you! What’s happened?”
Nesta stumbled to her feet.
“You’ve done your best to strangle me.”
She heard him say, “I’m drenched”; and then, “What are you doing here?” And with that, he was out of bed and switching on the light.
All Nesta’s nerve had not kept her from a sharp recoil which took her back to the mantelpiece.
He stood against the door and looked first at her and then at the bed. He might well say that he was drenched. When Nesta threw up her hand to try and push him away she had still held the bowl of water. It struck his shoulder, overturned, and sent a cold cascade down his back.
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