Stiff News
“Julia! Where are you?’ Julia winced. Noise didn’t help her headache. ‘Here,’ she called unsteadily.
He made towards the direction whence the sound had come and found his wife sitting at the kitchen table nursing a cup of black coffee in both hands, her ample figure crammed untidily into a jumper and skirt.
‘What’s wrong?’ she asked. She looked as if she had slept in her clothes, although he knew she hadn’t.
Lionel Powell tightened his lips. ‘I really don’t know what’s going on over at the Manor....’ ‘What does it matter?’ she asked. ‘After all, your mother’s gone now.’ ‘Of course it matters, my dear.’ Not for the first time, he experienced an involuntary pang of sympathy as he looked at his wife. She was a woman who somehow contrived to look raddled without having enjoyed – except now and then – the excesses of life.
‘I don’t see why.’ ‘But,’ he said aggrievedly, ‘I couldn’t get any sense out of them at all. They sounded completely at sixes and sevens…’ ‘I expect they’re still worrying about that silly letter of your mother’s.’ ‘And I only rang to say we were on our way over to collect that amulet thing of Mother’s and hand it over to Captain Markyate—’ He was interrupted by his wife.MoreLess
He made towards the direction whence the sound had come and found his wife sitting at the kitchen table nursing a cup of black coffee in both hands, her ample figure crammed untidily into a jumper and skirt.
‘What’s wrong?’ she asked. She looked as if she had slept in her clothes, although he knew she hadn’t.
Lionel Powell tightened his lips. ‘I really don’t know what’s going on over at the Manor....’ ‘What does it matter?’ she asked. ‘After all, your mother’s gone now.’ ‘Of course it matters, my dear.’ Not for the first time, he experienced an involuntary pang of sympathy as he looked at his wife. She was a woman who somehow contrived to look raddled without having enjoyed – except now and then – the excesses of life.
‘I don’t see why.’ ‘But,’ he said aggrievedly, ‘I couldn’t get any sense out of them at all. They sounded completely at sixes and sevens…’ ‘I expect they’re still worrying about that silly letter of your mother’s.’ ‘And I only rang to say we were on our way over to collect that amulet thing of Mother’s and hand it over to Captain Markyate—’ He was interrupted by his wife.MoreLess
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