The Silver Castle (1978)
“Sigrid and Raimund were talkative, perhaps trying to raise my spirits after the funeral. Anton was silent and several times I caught him watching me, his composed features giving no hint of his thoughts.
Raimund, helping himself from the fish platter, said brightly, “Last time I had trout with almonds was at that place called The Golden Hind. Remember, Gail?”
How could I forget that dreadful evening ... the evening he had revealed to me that the woman who’d died with my father was Anton’s wife?... And later, when we’d arrived back at the Schloss, there had been that terrible scene with Anton. Our trip that evening would have been far better not recalled, but Sigrid seemed as blithely unaware as her son of the painful associations it brought me.
“You haven’t been out together since then, have you?” she said, glancing from one to the other of us.
“We went to Geneva,” I put in quickly.
“But I meant just the two of you.”
Raimund grimaced at his mother ruefully. ‘It’s not for lack of trying on my part, Mama.MoreLess
Raimund, helping himself from the fish platter, said brightly, “Last time I had trout with almonds was at that place called The Golden Hind. Remember, Gail?”
How could I forget that dreadful evening ... the evening he had revealed to me that the woman who’d died with my father was Anton’s wife?... And later, when we’d arrived back at the Schloss, there had been that terrible scene with Anton. Our trip that evening would have been far better not recalled, but Sigrid seemed as blithely unaware as her son of the painful associations it brought me.
“You haven’t been out together since then, have you?” she said, glancing from one to the other of us.
“We went to Geneva,” I put in quickly.
“But I meant just the two of you.”
Raimund grimaced at his mother ruefully. ‘It’s not for lack of trying on my part, Mama.MoreLess
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