Something Wicked
“Here she was stuck in some kind of prison while outside everything that was important to her continued as if she didn’t exist. Lord Weaver had sent flowers with a note in his own hand wishing her a speedy recovery but she was ungrateful enough to think it might as well have been a wreath. As far as the New Gazette was concerned, she was history. Someone else was reporting from Prague – quite competently, she was forced to admit. There had been nothing from the editor. That was no surprise as he... disliked her and resented her influence with his proprietor. But – more hurtfully – none of her colleagues on the paper had thought to visit her. She was enough of a realist to know that out of sight meant out of mind, but still . . .
It was therefore with delight that she welcomed Adrian and Charlotte Hassel. Adrian was a painter whose work she did not particularly like but who was her oldest male friend. Charlotte was a novelist ‘on the fringes of the Bloomsbury set’, as she had once put it.MoreLess
It was therefore with delight that she welcomed Adrian and Charlotte Hassel. Adrian was a painter whose work she did not particularly like but who was her oldest male friend. Charlotte was a novelist ‘on the fringes of the Bloomsbury set’, as she had once put it.MoreLess
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