Death in Focus by Anne Perry

Author:Anne Perry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

16

Margot was really annoyed with Elena. It was nearly three days now, and she had not bothered to send any message at all as to where she was. If she had stopped off in Paris and decided to stay there with Ian, or alone, she could at least have said so! It took very little effort to send a telegram and say something, even if it was only an apology for tearing off like that with only a brief note. Not that Margot blamed her entirely, if she was honest. She might well have done the same thing. Indeed, she had, more than once. But she had had the decency to let people know, and apologize, more or less.

Margot had wired her parents, and they had heard nothing either. She had not thought it possible to become bored with Amalfi, but she had. There was no choice but to see if Elena was sitting in a heap in Paris, miserable that the affair had gone no further, too proud to tell anyone, and unable to go home until she had pulled herself together. Katherine had always expected Margot to look after her younger sister. Now she was going to have to do it again. Actually, Elena was perfectly capable of looking after herself. She just wouldn’t do the expected things. And to be honest, she had made an awful mess of the Aiden Strother business. She took everything so deeply! She had been loyal to him far longer than had been realistic. But alas, Elena was not a realist.

Margot checked out of the hotel very early in the morning and took the long, rather tedious train journey to Rome, Milan, and then Paris. The first place to look, of course, was the small Hôtel de l’Abbaye, on Rue Cassette, where they usually stayed. She went there and asked, but the staff had seen nothing of Elena. Margot booked herself a room anyway, then set out to walk in the usual places, to the cafés where she and Elena had gone together in the past. Damn it, they had lived in Paris long enough, when their father was British ambassador here. There must be some old friends still around.

She walked along the street with a swing in her step, with no particular care where she was going. She was wearing a black-and-white silk dress, and she felt the swirl of it with pleasure. They might not know if they had seen Elena or not, but they would remember Margot!

Three hours and many questions later, she was fed up with this and decided she would go home, whether she found Elena or not. She had memories of looking for her as a little girl, when Elena was rather sweet. Always asking questions. “How does this work?” “What does it do?” And more than anything else, “Why?” She supposed that they had grown apart while Margot fell in love with Paul. There had been no room for anyone else then. How could

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