A Week in Paris by Hore Rachel

Author:Hore, Rachel [Hore, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Next
ISBN: 9781471130779
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2014-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

Nathalie Ramond had been speaking for some time but now her soft voice fell silent, and she leaned back in her chair, her eyes closed. From the way she massaged her gnarled hands, Fay sensed the woman was in some pain.

‘I’m sorry,’ she said then, her eyes fluttering open. ‘I have somehow lost my thread.’

‘You were telling me about Miss Dunne,’ Fay prompted. ‘I knew her when I was a child. I had no idea that she’d been through so much.’ Fay recalled her as a benevolent aunt-like figure in old-fashioned tweeds and had never given a thought to what lay behind the appearance. The story was astonishing.

‘You know Miss Dunne?’ Mme Ramond’s face lit up.

‘She lived near us in Norfolk. I’m afraid she died when I was nine or ten.’

Mme Ramond looked sad. ‘Ah, but I should have liked to have met her again. You know, the war would not have been won without the Miss Dunnes. I don’t mean the fighting with tanks and bombs, but the war of hearts and minds. She had a natural instinct for what was right and good, and always lived by it. For most of us life is more confusing and sometimes we mistake the way.’

The bitterness in Mme Ramond’s tone both puzzled and alarmed Fay. Not for the first time, she perceived that some unimaginable darkness swirled beneath the woman’s narrative. Was it the same darkness that lay behind her mother’s distress? The worst was yet to come in this story, she knew, but she had to find out what it was.

‘Shall I continue?’ Now Mme Ramond was studying her with an expression of great tenderness, and the tenderness gave Fay hope.

‘Yes, of course,’ she said.

‘It’s difficult to decide where to start next . . . but ah, I think I see.’

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