At Long Last Love by Milly Adams

Author:Milly Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2017-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Tom was reading fast now, drinking in the words, drawn on, but wanting to stop.

Hastings hadn’t finished:

Kate came to see me two days after her father. She knocked on the door and brushed past Mrs B, as though she was a block of wood. She barged into my sitting room, while I sat at my desk, working on correspondence. She said, ‘It’s not Andrei’s baby. I had flu. I thought Dr Bates had come to see how I was, but he hadn’t come for that. He can’t have been at the nursing home – he can’t.’

I couldn’t believe my ears. Then she went on to say, ‘You’re a vicar, it’s your job to believe me.’

I replied, ‘It’s my job to endeavour to reveal the truth. I have investigated, and it can’t have been the doctor. He was elsewhere at the time. I have proof. Your accusation can only be termed wicked and destructive. You must withdraw it immediately, before it spreads beyond we three.’

I thought she would strike me, such was her anger. Instead she picked up a vase and threw it into the fireplace. The flowers, I can see them now, delphiniums; and then she rushed from the room, almost into Mrs B.

Kate tore back in, shouting, ‘All right, believe what you like. Andrei didn’t want me, and ran away – that’s what happened, because that’s what you all want to hear, so there you are. Tuck that into your prayers and tell your God, and may you all burn in hell.’

She was gone the next day, with Sarah, leaving her father a broken man, with a fractured friendship, because of course Dr Bates knew we had asked questions of the nursing home. He moved soon afterwards, to a different parish. We didn’t see much of him, and I can’t say I blame him.

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