Designs on Life by Elizabeth Ferrars
Author:Elizabeth Ferrars
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: The Langtail Press Ltd
Published: 2010-11-22T05:00:00+00:00
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Rina Evitt’s eyes were stretched wide with fear. Staring across the room at her husband, they were not quite focussed.
“It’ll never work,” she said shrilly.
“It’ll have to.” Harry Evitt’s voice was as empty of feeling as hers was charged with it. His nervousness was in his feet. With one heel he was trying to kick a hole in the costly grey rug before the fire. “Yes, it’ll have to,” he said without excitement, without doubt, without eagerness.
Rina dropped her head into her hands. Her hair tumbled over them as her fingers clawed her bursting temples. She had thick, bleached hair, with a sheen that was bright but lifeless. Her face was long, with slackly handsome features and big, wide-spaced eyes.
“I’ll make a mess of it—there isn’t time—there’s too much to remember.”
Knowing what she could do when she tried, her husband was not much troubled.
“You’ll remember all right,” he said. “It’s just the timing that matters. The rest’s easy. But make sure you get the timing right.”
He shifted his weight from one foot to the other, dug the back of one heel into a new patch of rug and gave a fierce twist to his foot. A faint dent remained in the springy pile for a moment.
“You’ve got to be sure the others leave on time,” he said. “And you’ve got to be sure you get Minnie out into the drive with them, to see them off, so that you can come back in here and change the clock and make that telephone call without her knowing. And you’ve got to time that exactly. But the rest of it’s easy.”
Rina jerked her head up, staring at him again.
He was a man of middle height, softly covered in flesh, dressed in a dark grey suit, a white shirt, a dark blue tie, all good, all inconspicuous. He had a round, white face, moulded into features as insignificant as the dent that he had made in the carpet, and with thinning dark hair brushed back from a low, curved forehead.
With her eyes on that calm, dull face, Rina said, “You haven’t just thought of this, Harry—not just today. You’ve had it ready for a long time, in case George ever found out about the money.”
“All right, I’ve had it ready,” Evitt said. “And a good thing I did, I’d say.”
“You’ve had it ready, yet you never told me …”
“You know that’s what I’m like,” he said. “You ought to be used to it by now.”
She swayed her head from side to side, not quite shaking it, not quite nodding. Crouched in her chair, shrunk into herself, she looked small, helpless and harmless. In fact, she was a tall woman, thin, but big-boned and strong.
“I’m not used to it,” she said. “I never shall be.”
Evitt’s pale pink lips twitched at the corners in a faint expression of satisfaction. But life never remained long in his face.
“Remember—get them all out into the drive,” he said, coaching her again with patience, with understanding, but with relentlessness.
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