The Case is Closed
“Poor Marion — poor, poor Marion, coming here with a flickering hope as Hilary had come, and hearing this damning evidence as Hilary had heard it. Only much, much worse for Marion — unbelievably, dreadfully worse. She mustn’t ever know that Hilary knew. She must be able to believe that she had shut Mrs. Ashley’s mouth on the evidence which would certainly have hanged Geoffrey Grey.
She turned the corner of Pinman’s Lane and walked back blindly along the way by which she had come. Was it well... to save a man for years, monotonous years, of deadening prison life? Wouldn’t the sharp wrench have been better — better for Geoff, and better for Marion too? But even in retrospect she shrank back from the thought. There are things beyond enduring. She shuddered away from this one, and came back with a start to the outside world.
She must have taken a wrong turning, for she was in a street she did not know at all. Of course she didn’t know any of the streets really, but this one she was sure she had never seen before — little raw houses, barely finished yet already occupied, semi-detached, with one half of a house painted bice green and the other half mustard yellow, red curtains in one family’s windows, and royal blue next door, and roofs tiled in every imaginable shade.MoreLess
She turned the corner of Pinman’s Lane and walked back blindly along the way by which she had come. Was it well... to save a man for years, monotonous years, of deadening prison life? Wouldn’t the sharp wrench have been better — better for Geoff, and better for Marion too? But even in retrospect she shrank back from the thought. There are things beyond enduring. She shuddered away from this one, and came back with a start to the outside world.
She must have taken a wrong turning, for she was in a street she did not know at all. Of course she didn’t know any of the streets really, but this one she was sure she had never seen before — little raw houses, barely finished yet already occupied, semi-detached, with one half of a house painted bice green and the other half mustard yellow, red curtains in one family’s windows, and royal blue next door, and roofs tiled in every imaginable shade.MoreLess
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