Never Mind Miss Fox by Olivia Glazebrook

Author:Olivia Glazebrook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

Waiting for his flight at JFK, Clive told Belinda about Eliot. “I expect you’re wondering who that girl was,” Clive said, “the one in the lift.”

“Not really,” Belinda replied, “but it sounds like you’re going to tell me.”

Clive told her everything. It was in part to fill the dead time they had to sit through; in part to distract himself from the crisis that waited in London; in part because of that emergency, and in part because he wanted to hear that none of this was his fault.

When he stopped talking Belinda blew air out of her cheeks and stared down at her shoes. Then she said, “I don’t know why you think she’s worse off here with Lynton than she was with you.” She sounded tired and depressed.

Clive had not expected this and he did not—could not—reply. His surprise must have shown in his expression because Belinda continued, “Well: think about it—at least he cares where she is and what she’s doing; at least someone will notice if she doesn’t make it home one night. It sounds like you and her parents—between you—did a pretty thorough job of fucking her up.” She stared into Clive’s face which had turned the stained gray of an old dishcloth. “What do you want me to say, Clive? That it’s OK? That you didn’t do a bad thing? Were you expecting sympathy?”

Yes. Please.

“Well, tough. I’ve got a fifteen-year-old daughter at home. I wish you hadn’t told me any of that. It’s a bad, rotten deed, what you did. If I were Martha and I found out, I’d—” She stopped and started again. “I don’t know what she’d do if she knew.”

The mention of Martha chilled Clive but seemed to refresh Belinda, to give her back a sense of purpose, and she peered up at the winking screen—Departures—above their heads. In a different tone of voice—one that had been washed and dried—she said, “The only thing that matters now is Eliza. Let’s not mention it again.”

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