The Toff And the Fallen Angels (2014)
“‘I know absolutely nothing more than I’ve told you.’ She looked so earnest and so plain, so homely and so wholesome; throughout the crisis she had maintained her outward composure remarkably. Now, her make-up was fresh, with just enough lipstick to make the best of her full lips, and she had a scarcely discernible shade of eyeshadow, so that her chestnut-brown eyes seemed to have a slight sheen over them. Rollison thought of Slatter’s injured eye. ‘Naomi,’ Rollison said, almost harshly, ‘if you... are protecting someone—’ ‘But I am not,’ she insisted. Her voice had a tone of restrained indignation. ‘How can you think that I would allow such terrible things to happen in order to protect any individual? It is unthinkable. Four—four of my friends, brutally murdered. Sir Douglas perhaps blinded—no, Mr Rollison, I know nothing that could help. I am at the edge of a dreadful precipice. All I have fought for and believed in, all I have tried to do, is faced with absolute disaster.MoreLess
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