Seeing is Believing by E X Ferrars

Author:E X Ferrars [Ferrars, E X]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307490698
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1994-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

I introduced Lynne and they expressed great pleasure at seeing her, wanted to know, as I had, what had brought her, and heard of her learning about Peter's murder from television. Then they helped themselves to sherry and Malcolm said that of course ynne was staying for lunch.

‘Oh no, you're all coming down to have lunch with me at the Green Man,’ she said. ‘But tell me, where's Avril?’

‘And where have you been?’ I asked.

‘Only for a bit of a walk,’ Malcolm said. ‘We thought we'd get home before you got back from Otterswell.’

‘We both felt an overpowering desire to go somewhere where we wouldn't be able to see a single policeman,’ Brian said. ‘We've been up on the Downs.’ He was looking at Lynne with deep interest, as if she were of a species that he had never encountered before. Yet Granborough parents were such a mixed lot that I was sure he must have met and entertained at least a few actors and actresses, some of them almost as famous as Lynne, as Malcolm and I had in our time. ‘I realize we ought to have left a note for you to tell you where we'd gone,’ he went on. ‘I'm sorry if you were worried.’

‘I wasn't specially worried about you two,’ I said, ‘but as Lynne just asked you, where's Avril?’

‘She went to call in on Jane,’ Malcolm answered. ‘Jane's had the idea that Avril might move in with her as a lodger, at least for a time. Avril seemed to like the idea. And she set off to discuss it with her, of course taking the dogs. It's very kind of you to invite us to the Green Man, Mrs Denison, but I think we ought to wait till Avril gets back.’

‘Lynne,’ she said.

‘Lynne,’ he responded with a smile. ‘Though I could try phoning Jane to see if Avril's started back already, and if she hasn't, I could tell her perhaps to meet us at the Green Man.’

‘Yes, do that,’ Lynne said.

Malcolm went out to the telephone in the hall and I heard him speak for a minute or two, presumably to Jane, but when he came back into the room he shook his head.

‘She's left Jane already, so we'll have to wait for her,’ he said. ‘She should be here in a few minutes.’

As he spoke, I heard the squeak of the gate, and a moment later Avril came into the room with the three dogs thrusting their way in ahead of her, and scenting a stranger in Lynne, investigating her with a mixture of hesitant growling and little yelps of pleasure.

As soon as she saw Lynne, Avril threw herself into her arms. The two of them clung together, and tears began to stream from Avril's eyes.

‘Oh, Lynne, you shouldn't have … You can't do anything … You can't help … It's all so awful, but you shouldn't have come.’ The broken sentences came from Avril between choking sobs. ‘But I'm so glad to see you.

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