The Best of Sisters
“But was it really Freddie, or a complete stranger who reminded her of him? Was her imagination playing tricks on her? Eliza took a step forward and then stopped.
He turned his head slowly to look at her. His eyes were in deep shadow beneath the brim of his top hat. He was dressed like a gentleman of means, in a coat that was cut to the latest fashion, checked trousers and highly polished leather ankle boots. It seemed to Eliza that everything was happening in slow motion. For a frozen moment in... time, it seemed to her that the world had stopped spinning: she held her breath. The hammering of the carpenters beating nails into wood resounded like a drum roll announcing a momentous event.
He was walking towards her so slowly that he might have been wading through the deep, dark waters of the Thames. ‘Freddie?’ He was so near now that they could have reached out and touched fingers. A smile of recognition curved his generous lips and, taking off his hat, he tossed it high in the air with a whoop of delight.MoreLess
He turned his head slowly to look at her. His eyes were in deep shadow beneath the brim of his top hat. He was dressed like a gentleman of means, in a coat that was cut to the latest fashion, checked trousers and highly polished leather ankle boots. It seemed to Eliza that everything was happening in slow motion. For a frozen moment in... time, it seemed to her that the world had stopped spinning: she held her breath. The hammering of the carpenters beating nails into wood resounded like a drum roll announcing a momentous event.
He was walking towards her so slowly that he might have been wading through the deep, dark waters of the Thames. ‘Freddie?’ He was so near now that they could have reached out and touched fingers. A smile of recognition curved his generous lips and, taking off his hat, he tossed it high in the air with a whoop of delight.MoreLess
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