Another Eden by Anne Hampson

Author:Anne Hampson [Hampson, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7953-3884-7
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 1982-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Susanne twisted the ring on her finger and smiled to herself. A solitaire. She could visualise it because this was something one did not have to describe. Richard’s ring had been a cluster. Susanne had not wanted anything quite so grand; she felt it was not her. But as Richard had insisted, she had put her own desire to one side. Now, she had the solitaire, for Nick had said,

‘You’re wearing it, my dear, so it must be what you want.’ He had gone on to say that one day he would buy her a larger stone, but she shook her head.

‘This is the one I shall always treasure, Nick,’ and she had reached up to find his face, and then his lips, so that she could guide her own to them.

They had been back home a fortnight, and Nick was ‘heavy in’ with his novel, but neither he nor she had forgotten the intention of going to live in Bali.

‘I must try to write another novel first, though,’ he said and she fully understood. If he submitted another then he could have the break needed for the selling of the house and the removal to Bali.

Susanne had said nothing more about learning to touch-type. Nick had enough on his mind at present.

‘Any post for me?’ she asked Mary one morning when she heard the van drawing away along the curving, tree-lined drive.

‘No, miss—just two for Mr. Merridew. One from London—I expect it’s from his publishers—looks like their envelope. The other’s from New York.’ She went quiet, and Susanne knew she was fixing the envelopes into the letter stand, a beautiful silver-gilt antique which Susanne had admired the very first time she had come to Nick’s home, bringing him the results of the research she had been doing for him. She had not known Richard in those days, for Nick had not yet introduced her to him. Then Nick had watched the love affair develop—or, more correctly, as far as Richard had been concerned at least, the affair. For at this time Richard had had no intention of asking Susanne to marry him. He had been confident of getting her to bed with far less fuss than that, he had laughingly admitted when at last he had proposed marriage. But it had been prior to that that he had made the other proposal, and she still remembered the excruciating agony she had suffered before Richard, realising that she was the only woman for him, finally proposed marriage. Yes, Nick had watched all this, the bystander with the enigmatic expression that never gave anything away—no emotion until the accident and its aftermath. He had been angry with his brother then, and he had taken on his brother’s responsibility—or what Nick firmly considered to have been his brother’s responsibility.

New York…. A letter from New York for Nick. But none for her. She turned away and sat down to read, her fingers moving quickly now for she was gaining in dexterity with every day that passed.

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