The Wheel of Fortune
“We were in the long drawing room which with the dining room next door had once formed the old medieval hall; it faced south over what had once been a moat and was now a rose garden. All the mullioned windows were open, and as I stood with Blanche beside her grand piano I could feel the warmth of the late-afternoon sun and hear the buzzing of the bees in the shrubs that clustered against the ancient stone walls of the house. Blanche had been arranging some white roses in one of the French crysta...l vases that had been given to us as a wedding present. No matter what time of year it was the drawing room never seemed to be without flowers.“I hardly know how to tell you this,” I said. “If there was any way of keeping it from you I would, but unfortunately the scandal will soon be notorious.”“Scandal?” said Blanche, pausing with a white rose in her hands. Her dark eyes, which slanted above her high cheekbones, were disturbed but trustful as she waited for me to continue. Naturally she knew that any incipient scandal could not possibly relate to me.Rigid with embarrassment I told her that my father was planning to keep Mrs.MoreLess
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