Agatha Christie by Towards Zero

Author:Towards Zero [Zero, Towards]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-31T21:34:40+00:00

have to wait for it." "I'll wait," said Nevile.

"And then, after three years or whatever it is, you'll ask dear sweet Audrey to marry all over again?" "If she'll have me." "She'll have you all right!" said Kay viciously. "And where do I come in?" "You'll be free to find a better man than I am. Naturally I shall see you're well provided for " "Cut out the bribes!" Her voice rose, as she lost control of herself: "Listen to me, Nevile. You can't do this

thing to me! I'll not divorce you. I married you because I loved you. I know when you started turning against me. It was after I let you know I followed you to Estoril. You wanted to think it was all Fate. It upset your vanity to think it was me.t Well, I'm not ashamed of what I did. You fell in love with me and married me and I'm not going to let you go back to that sly little cat who's got her hooks into you again. She meant this to happen but she's not going to bring it

off! I'll kill you fa:st. Do you hear? I'll kill you. I'll kill her too. I'll see you both dead. I'll

" Nevile took a step forward and caught her by the arm. "Shut up, Kay.

For goodness' sake. You can't make this kind of scene here." "Can't I? You'll see. I'll

"

Hurstall stepped out on the terrace. His face was quite impassive. "Tea is served in the drawing room," he announced. Kay and Nevile walked slowly towards the drawing room window. Hurstall stood aside to let them pass in. Up in the sky the clouds were gathering.

XI The rain started falling at a quarter to seven. Nevile watched it from the window of his bedroom. He had had no further conwersation with Kay. They had avoided each ,other after tea.

Dinner that evening was a stilted diffficult meal. Nevile was sunk in abstraction; ]Kay's face had an unusual amount of mak,:eup; Audrey sat like a frozen ghost. Mary Mdin did her best to keep some kind of co:,nversation going and was slightly annoyed with Thomas Royde for not playing up to her better. Hurstall was nervous and his hands trembled as he handed the vegetables. As the meal drew to a close, Nevilee said with elaborate casualness, "Think I shall go

over to Easterhead after dinner and look up Latimer. We might have a game of billiarrds." "Take the latchkey," said Mary. "Ira case you're back late." "Thanks, I will." They went into the drawing room where coffee was served. The turning on of the wireless and the news was a welcome diversion. Kay, who had been yawning ostentatiously ever since dinner,' said she would go up to bed. She had got a headache.

"Have you got any aspirin?" asked Mary. "Yes, thank you." She left the room. Nevile tuned the wireless on to a program with music. He sat silent on the sofa for some time. He did not look once at Audrey, but sat huddled up looking like an unhappy little boy.

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