The Secret of Greylands (2016)
“It is so long since I saw her.”
Cynthia’s tone was very wistful. Gillman looked at her searchingly as he closed and locked the door of his wife’s room.
“Not just now, later in the day perhaps. She is just dropping off to sleep, and after her bad night I am anxious that she should not be disturbed.”
Cynthia went on to her room quickly and Gillman turned downstairs. Cynthia took a volume of Carlyle and sat down by her open window; but to-day she found it impossible to keep her attenti...on fixed upon the intricate sentences. Her thoughts would turn to her own affairs; her encounter with her husband, as well as Lady Duxworth’s visit the preceding week, had complicated matters by convincing her that the security which had been the charm of Greylands in her eyes was exceedingly precarious, and might come to an end any day.
She had already written to Messrs Bolt & Barsly, asking them to help her obtain a situation, but their reply had been ambiguous in the extreme, and so far nothing of a satisfactory nature had been concluded.MoreLess
Cynthia’s tone was very wistful. Gillman looked at her searchingly as he closed and locked the door of his wife’s room.
“Not just now, later in the day perhaps. She is just dropping off to sleep, and after her bad night I am anxious that she should not be disturbed.”
Cynthia went on to her room quickly and Gillman turned downstairs. Cynthia took a volume of Carlyle and sat down by her open window; but to-day she found it impossible to keep her attenti...on fixed upon the intricate sentences. Her thoughts would turn to her own affairs; her encounter with her husband, as well as Lady Duxworth’s visit the preceding week, had complicated matters by convincing her that the security which had been the charm of Greylands in her eyes was exceedingly precarious, and might come to an end any day.
She had already written to Messrs Bolt & Barsly, asking them to help her obtain a situation, but their reply had been ambiguous in the extreme, and so far nothing of a satisfactory nature had been concluded.MoreLess
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