The Spider-Orchid (2014)
“Or if not precisely the scene itself, at least straight from the thrilling presence of a girl whose sister’s best friend actually had been there, right on the spot. Well, practically on the spot: she’d heard the screams, anyway, and had watched the ambulance driving away.
It had happened like this. This girl, Rosemary Something, a Fifth-Former, had chanced to be staying on after school for a final rehearsal of the Upper School play; and just as the final tragic scene was coming up, with the... chorus of Greek women all tearing their hair and bewailing their destiny almost without a slip—just at this juncture, there’d been these awful screams. It was hard to tell just where they were coming from; in the deserted school building everything echoed so, up and down the empty stairs and corridors. Anyway, they’d all rushed along, pell mell, just as they were, clutching at their safety-pinned Grecian robes, head-dresses and myrtle wreaths all awry, but by the time they’d located the scene of the accident, most of the excitement was already over.MoreLess
It had happened like this. This girl, Rosemary Something, a Fifth-Former, had chanced to be staying on after school for a final rehearsal of the Upper School play; and just as the final tragic scene was coming up, with the... chorus of Greek women all tearing their hair and bewailing their destiny almost without a slip—just at this juncture, there’d been these awful screams. It was hard to tell just where they were coming from; in the deserted school building everything echoed so, up and down the empty stairs and corridors. Anyway, they’d all rushed along, pell mell, just as they were, clutching at their safety-pinned Grecian robes, head-dresses and myrtle wreaths all awry, but by the time they’d located the scene of the accident, most of the excitement was already over.MoreLess
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