Sea of Lost Love by Santa Montefiore

Author:Santa Montefiore
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Mrs. Waynebridge packed her bag. She didn’t have many clothes, being a woman of simple tastes and means. The thought of flying terrified the life out of her, even though Celestria had assured her they’d be flying first class. They still had to be in the air, whichever class they traveled in, and those machines didn’t look right in the sky. “It’s against nature. If God had wanted us to fly, He would have given us wings,” she had complained. However, she had to admit that a large part of her was excited by the idea of adventure. If she could overcome her nervousness, she might actually enjoy herself. She had watched two magpies alight on her small terrace that morning…one for sorrow, two for joy…That had been very encouraging.

She was a widow and life was lonely, set into a comfortable but not very exhilarating routine. She wasn’t sure about the Italians, but Italy was famously beautiful. She folded her cardigan and placed it over her Sunday dress. It was the end of summer, Celestria had said, but the evenings could be cold. She wasn’t expected to take her apron. She stood up and stared down at her small suitcase. The sight of it made her tremble. It meant leaving home. Leaving England. Setting off for somewhere unfamiliar. She carried the case downstairs and put it in the little entrance hall, where it would remain until Mr. Bancroft’s chauffeur came to pick her up on Thursday morning. She went into the sitting room and perched on a chair with her hands neatly folded on her lap, feeling a mixture of excitement and sickness. She was relieved she couldn’t see the case. It was getting dark outside. She looked at her watch. It was eight-thirty. She was too nervous to eat or even to heat up some soup. Sliding her eyes over the furniture in the small Fulham house, she suddenly felt quite lost, as if everything that belonged to her was drifting off on an unseen tide. Would it all be here when she got back?

Celestria didn’t pack. She knew Waynie would help her the following day. Instead, she lay in a hot bubble bath, feeling a sense of serenity wash over her with the bluebell-scented water. She had told Aidan that she was tired. The truth was that she was tired of hanging around waiting to go to Italy. Aidan had suggested a flick, but she didn’t feel like necking in the back row. She’d retire to bed early and get her beauty sleep. She needed all her energy if she was going to find the person responsible for turning her world upside down.

The sun set and the sky grew dark above London. The same sky grew dark above Puglia, but the stars were much brighter there, and the moon, full and round like a ball of mozzarella, was not obscured by the clouds that gathered over England, but shone phosphorescent over the Aegean Sea, turning it a milky green.

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