The Hidden Years
“Their isolation didn't help; they had no radio, no delivery of a daily paper, and they seldom had visitors.
At first she had attributed this latter lack to herself; but those visitors they had had quickly if unknowingly reassured her.
It amazed her that people here should so readily accept her as Edward's wife, ignoring her youth and the disparity of that youth and his ill health, although she had seen the way even the vicar had uncomfortably avoided looking directly at Edward for too long. Only the doctor, Ian Holmes, a bracing Northerner in his mid-fifties, seemed prepared to acknowledge Edward's infirmities.
It was true that the locals, the villagers, still treated her with reserve, but not, she was coming to realise, because they had guessed the truth about her. No… it was simply that both she and to some extent Edward himself were strangers to them.
It was from the doctor that they learned that the couple who were supposed to have been taking care of the house had... left it over twelve months ago.MoreLess
At first she had attributed this latter lack to herself; but those visitors they had had quickly if unknowingly reassured her.
It amazed her that people here should so readily accept her as Edward's wife, ignoring her youth and the disparity of that youth and his ill health, although she had seen the way even the vicar had uncomfortably avoided looking directly at Edward for too long. Only the doctor, Ian Holmes, a bracing Northerner in his mid-fifties, seemed prepared to acknowledge Edward's infirmities.
It was true that the locals, the villagers, still treated her with reserve, but not, she was coming to realise, because they had guessed the truth about her. No… it was simply that both she and to some extent Edward himself were strangers to them.
It was from the doctor that they learned that the couple who were supposed to have been taking care of the house had... left it over twelve months ago.MoreLess
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