A Vengeance of Spies by Manda Scott

Author:Manda Scott [Scott, Manda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manda Scott
Published: 2019-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

September became October in which we broke every CASPAR cipher within half a day, and were given other, harder, more distant ciphers to work on in between.

We spent another weekend at the Shipwrights, during which we abandoned the bedroom for long enough to take dinner with Katherine’s aunt and I found what it was to talk with someone who understood.

In her aunt, I saw who Katherine would be in thirty years time, if she made choices and lived to regret them.

Margaret Catherston was as tall, as lean, as strikingly dark as her niece, but in her, the family lines came together in a way that was handsome rather than beautiful.

She carried her grief as a cape that lined her shoulders, but she was happy for us. Over the course of an evening sitting beside the vast oak-fed fire, I discovered that she had been amanuensis to the Duke of Windsor when he was still King Edward VIII, and that her lover had been one of his mother’s ladies-in-waiting.

As a result of the former, and possibly the latter, she had been offered a substantial pension to ensure her silence on private matters, and encouraged to retire early from public life at an age when she might have expected still to be working.

Her husband had been an equerry to Edward when he was Prince of Wales but had died of pneumonia when their sons were both still in their teens.

To this day, I have never fully understood the nature of her relationship with Madame Arquette, but there is no doubt both were entirely aware of the growing relationship between Katherine and me.

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