11 - Ticket to Oblivion
“Light had faded from the sky so it was impossible for her to work at her easel and, in any case, she wanted some company. It was several weeks since she’d gone back to the little house in Camden Town and, as the cab drew up outside it, she felt a nostalgic pull. It disappeared the moment that she stepped inside. Now that she lived in a much larger and more comfortable abode, the house in which she’d been born seemed impossibly cramped. As her horizons had broadened, her old home had diminished in size. Yet she’d enjoyed her childhood there and, after the death of her mother, virtually ran the house. Caleb Andrews was very pleased to see her and she, in turn, was glad to find the place looking as neat and tidy as it had been during her time there.‘Where’s Robert this evening?’ he asked.‘He’s spending the night at Burnhope Manor. Victor Leeming brought me a letter from him. There have been complications.’ ‘What sort of complications?’‘I don’t know, Father, and I wouldn’t tell you even i...f I did.’‘But I might be able to help, Maddy.’‘You can help Robert best by letting him do his job unimpeded.’‘I wouldn’t impede him,’ he protested.MoreLess
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