The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
“RAGOSTIN WILL CONTACT YOU DISCREETLY,” I told Lady Theodora, “with his thoughts upon the matter.”
It was fortunate that “Dr. Ragostin” was to supply the thoughts, for mine were in a muddle worse than the most tangled yarn basket that ever was. Out of all the Gordian knot I seized upon only one strand surely, a grey one, another indication that Lady Cecily had not eloped. If her secret correspondence with the shopkeeper’s son had developed into a passionate affair, she would have used a rainbow ...of sealing-wax other than the grey. No, she had written her letters only in friendship.
She had gone off not for love, but for some other reason.
Which, I sensed, had something to do with her odd diaries. The mirror writing.
And something – although I could not even begin to imagine what – something to do with her extraordinary charcoal drawings.
The latter were so unladylike and disturbing, both in their bold execution and in their choice of subjects, that I had put them back behind the bedroom furniture and had not mentioned them to Lady Theodora.MoreLess
It was fortunate that “Dr. Ragostin” was to supply the thoughts, for mine were in a muddle worse than the most tangled yarn basket that ever was. Out of all the Gordian knot I seized upon only one strand surely, a grey one, another indication that Lady Cecily had not eloped. If her secret correspondence with the shopkeeper’s son had developed into a passionate affair, she would have used a rainbow ...of sealing-wax other than the grey. No, she had written her letters only in friendship.
She had gone off not for love, but for some other reason.
Which, I sensed, had something to do with her odd diaries. The mirror writing.
And something – although I could not even begin to imagine what – something to do with her extraordinary charcoal drawings.
The latter were so unladylike and disturbing, both in their bold execution and in their choice of subjects, that I had put them back behind the bedroom furniture and had not mentioned them to Lady Theodora.MoreLess
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