The Echoing Stones (2014)
““I didn’t even know he was out!” she protested. “I didn’t hear a thing. I’d settled him in bed, and I was downstairs watching television – well, I suppose I don’t have to stand at his bedside and watch him every minute of the time, do I?”
“Of course you don’t, dear,” Joyce interrupted placatingly. “It’s not your fault. He must have crept out quietly, he does that sometimes, he’s very cunning. Your father doesn’t quite understand how sly old people can get, once they become senile.”
“He’...s not senile!” Flora snapped; and Joyce looked pained. Had she not just been taking the girl’s side in the argument? The discussion of the night’s adventure was fast deteriorating into all-against-all bickering: and no wonder, it being four in the morning, and none of them having had any sleep – unless you count Arnold’s brief interlude of nightmare.
By now, some sort of picture of the sequence of events had been hammered out between them.MoreLess
“Of course you don’t, dear,” Joyce interrupted placatingly. “It’s not your fault. He must have crept out quietly, he does that sometimes, he’s very cunning. Your father doesn’t quite understand how sly old people can get, once they become senile.”
“He’...s not senile!” Flora snapped; and Joyce looked pained. Had she not just been taking the girl’s side in the argument? The discussion of the night’s adventure was fast deteriorating into all-against-all bickering: and no wonder, it being four in the morning, and none of them having had any sleep – unless you count Arnold’s brief interlude of nightmare.
By now, some sort of picture of the sequence of events had been hammered out between them.MoreLess
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