![]() ![]() ‘I think I must have gone slightly crazy. What with that and those phone calls, you really surpassed yourself last night.’ She said thickly, ‘You know it is, because you did it. ‘I have someone fixing the bedroom window.’ He was asking if Malory had gone, she knew, yet she felt curiously reluctant to tell him she was alone in the house. ![]() ‘Are you alone this time?’ The question was edged. You’ve got to listen to me.’ He looked round. We’ve both had time to think-to calm down. He stood flicking his driving gloves against the palm of his hand. He was rather pale, and there was a small muscle jumping at the corner of his mouth. If she’d had her wits about her, she would have slammed the door in his face, but, as she stood, gaping at him, he walked past her into the hall. The last person she expected to see on the doorstep was Nigel. ![]() With luck, it might even be repaired before Mrs Conroy returned, and her mother need know nothing about it. He’d promised in response to her urgency to ‘pop along as soon as maybe’ and see to her bedroom window. It must be Mr Ambrose, she thought with relief. When the doorbell rang, she felt almost reprieved. Amanda put down the crossword puzzle she’d been staring at as if the clues were in Sanskrit, and went into the hall to meet her mother, trying to think of some placatory remark as she did so. ![]()
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