Bear Island by Alistair Maclean

Author:Alistair Maclean [MacLean, Alistair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction:Misc
ISBN: 9780006164340
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1987-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

“I daresay. Luck to leading her back to the paths of the righteous-you shouldn't have to fight off too much competition for the job. How is it, do you think, that a person like that should be so different from the other two?”

“Mary dear and Mary darling? Dear, dear girls. Even in my dotage I love them dearly. Such sweet children.”

“They could do no wrong?”

“Never!”

“Ha! That's easy to say. But what if, perhaps, they were deeply under the influence of alcohol?”

“What?" Lonnie appeared genuinely shocked. "What are you talking about? Inconceivable, my dear boy, inconceivable!”

“Not even, say, if they were to have a double gin?”

“What piffling nonsense is this? We are speaking of the influence of alcohol, not about aperitifs for swaddling babes.”

“You would see no harm in either of them asking for, say, just one drink?”

“Of course not." Lonnie looked genuinely puzzled. `You do harp on so, my dear fellow.”

“Yes, I do rather. I just wondered why once, after a long day on the set, when Mary Stuart had asked you for just that one drink you flew completely off the handle."

In curiously slow-motion fashion Lonnie put bottle and glass on the table and rose unsteadily to his feel?. He looked old and tired and terribly vulnerable.

"Ever since you came in-now I can see it." He spoke in a kind of sad whisper. Ever since you came in you've been leading up to this one question."

He shook his head and his eyes were not seeing me. I thought you were my friend," he said quietly and walked uncertainly from the saloon.

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