Walk With Care
“Geoffrey Deane did not return after lunch, Mannister having apparently dispatched him on an errand which he did not particularize. As a result, Jeremy had Mannister all to himself—and Mannister in a worse temper than he could have believed possible. It was not merely that everything that Jeremy did was wrong and, being wrong, had to be done again, but there was behind all this unreasonable carping a something which he would have liked to have had a look at in the open. He thought of a knife hidden in a cloak. That was it—a hidden knife, a hidden grudge, a bitterly pointed anger. At least he thought it was that.
Jeremy did not get away until seven. Then he had something to eat, went out for a tramp, and dropped in at a cinema. He got back to Nym’s Row just five minutes before Rosalind arrived there, and, letting himself in with his key, was astonished to see the light still on in the Walkers’ kitchen and Lizzie Walker up and dressed.
“And thank the Lord you’re no later, Mr Jere...my!”—with an air of judicial reproof.MoreLess
Jeremy did not get away until seven. Then he had something to eat, went out for a tramp, and dropped in at a cinema. He got back to Nym’s Row just five minutes before Rosalind arrived there, and, letting himself in with his key, was astonished to see the light still on in the Walkers’ kitchen and Lizzie Walker up and dressed.
“And thank the Lord you’re no later, Mr Jere...my!”—with an air of judicial reproof.MoreLess
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