A Good Heart is Hard to Find by Trisha Ashley

Author:Trisha Ashley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Published: 2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00

14

Mad Max

… and we knew Dante was no good.

Samuel Butler: Notebooks

Found myself idly thumbing through the Dictionary of Quotations, where there were lots of good Dante ones but, I was extremely aggrieved to find, no Cassandra ones.

Maybe there are male and female versions of the Dictionary and I’ve got the wrong one? I mean, it wasn’t like she didn’t have an interesting life: someone must have mentioned her.

Mind you, she was a striking example of what can happen to a woman when she reneged on a promise. Keturah should bear it in mind, although in her case it wasn’t a lot of petulant gods who were about to become the thingummy in the machine.

Tried to discuss this with Jason when he popped in at lunchtime to share a pizza, for he was not unintelligent, although he had stopped thinking deeply about anything much since he settled here.

All he said was that I was cute when I talked mythological, and then I said I hoped he choked on his black olive.

Such childish depths are, I’m afraid, our usual comfortable mode of conversation when he is not fancying himself in love with me.

Later I popped into the Haunted Well B&B, where Orla was fully occupied with a party of Australian family-tree researchers. The house seemed to be covered in people poring over vast photocopies, and Orla was quite distracted.

She said the only Cassandra she’d ever come across before me was Mama Cass, who was a striking example to us all.

I agreed, but afterwards wondered quite what sort of example.

An almost incoherent phone call from Max, who had been ‘taken in for questioning’ by the American police the moment he stepped off the plane in sunny California.

‘Incompetence!’ he spluttered. ‘They already know I’m innocent of anything to do with Rosemary’s death, and whatever Kyra says she did had nothing to do with me!’

‘Kyra, as in your personal trainer?’ I asked, my heart sinking. ‘What did she do?’

‘Only confessed that she was responsible for Rosemary’s death! They had an argument which ended with Kyra giving the wheelchair an almighty shove and walking off. Afterwards, she realized Rosemary hadn’t been able to stop it and gone over the edge, but she was too frightened to say anything even though it was an accident.’

‘So why is she saying anything now?’

‘Goodness knows!’

‘And why did the police want to question you again, if you weren’t there at the time?’ I pondered aloud.

‘Some busybody – that home-help we had to fire for incompetence, probably – told them that Kyra was getting a bit … well, frankly, she had a crush on me,’ he hedged. ‘Rosemary told me the day before she died that she’d had enough of Kyra trying to flirt with me under her nose and she would have to go, so that’s probably what the argument was about.’

‘You were having an affair with her, weren’t you?’ I asked bluntly, a lot of long-suppressed suspicions bobbing up to the surface, all thanks to Rosemary.

‘How can you even suggest that, Cassy, when you know how I feel about you?’ he said, sounding deeply wounded.

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