The Old Vengeful
“Which was not at all what he expected, but much more rewarding,” said Audley. “So you just read her reply for yourself, Elizabeth.”
He reached down the table towards Elizabeth, and she took the letter from him. But although she also caught Paul’s eye between the silver candlesticks, with the flames sparkling on the glitter of the cutlery and glass between them—and Del Andrew’s eyes too (less cautioning, more frankly curious) in passing—she still felt like the little girl who had found the a...nswers in the back of her book, but still couldn’t make her sums add up right— “Elizabeth—Detective Chief Inspector Andrew, Special Branch— ‘Del’ to us, apparently, according to my husband … Chief Inspector—Miss Elizabeth Loftus—Elizabeth to us.”
First, he was too young—or not first, since she had never met a Chief Inspector of any sort, let alone of the Special Branch … So first, was this the type—more like the young gipsy who’d come up the drive last month, trying to sell a load of asphalt “left over from a job”?MoreLess
He reached down the table towards Elizabeth, and she took the letter from him. But although she also caught Paul’s eye between the silver candlesticks, with the flames sparkling on the glitter of the cutlery and glass between them—and Del Andrew’s eyes too (less cautioning, more frankly curious) in passing—she still felt like the little girl who had found the a...nswers in the back of her book, but still couldn’t make her sums add up right— “Elizabeth—Detective Chief Inspector Andrew, Special Branch— ‘Del’ to us, apparently, according to my husband … Chief Inspector—Miss Elizabeth Loftus—Elizabeth to us.”
First, he was too young—or not first, since she had never met a Chief Inspector of any sort, let alone of the Special Branch … So first, was this the type—more like the young gipsy who’d come up the drive last month, trying to sell a load of asphalt “left over from a job”?MoreLess
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