The Perfect Daughter
“I got there in time to jump on a train for Guildford just as it was leaving. Another set of London suburbs, another lot of woods and fields, went past in the evening light. Just twenty-four hours, almost exactly, since the boat-train had pulled out of Liverpool Street and so many things turned upside-down since then that I was beyond giddiness. The one thing that mattered was getting to the house facing the North Downs with its lily-pond and its ducks and its neat little knots of vegetables. As... far as I had any plans, I’d intended to start walking from the station but it was after nine by the time I got there and the Hergests’ house was around half an hour by motorcar out of town, which probably meant seven miles or so along country lanes. No cabs, of course, and with my money down to seven pounds and some small change that was probably just as well. I was tempted to press on but had just enough sense left to see that there was no point in getting lost in country lanes in the dusk.MoreLess
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