Seven for a Secret by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General, Large Type Books, England
ISBN: 9780449221778
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 1992-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

“What’s happened? What’s happened?” she cried.

It’s only a doll,” said Flora piteously.

Lucy’s eyes were filled with fear. Her lips moved as though she were praying. She put her arm through Flora’s.

“Come along in, dear,” she said.

“It’s all right. Nothing’s changed.”

“It’s a doll,” whispered Flora.

“You’ve been dreaming,” said Lucy.

“Only a dream?” whispered Flora.

“It was only a dream.”

Lucy looked over her shoulder at us.

“I’ll take her in,” she said quietly.

“I’ll soothe her down. She has these turns.”

She went into the house with Flora, leaving Gaston, with me, looking after them as they went.

I said: “Come on, we must go.”

We went through the gate and out to the road.

“What do you make of that?” he said.

“I suppose she has flashes of reality.”

“Sister Lucy didn’t seem very pleased about that one.”

“She is very anxious about Flora. What a terrible responsibility it must be.”

“She had just had a visitor,” said Gaston.

“I think there must have been some revelation. I wonder what our pioneering colonist had to say to her.”

1 could not stop thinking about Flora and a few days later I called on her. Lucy was at home on this occasion.

“It was good of you to call,” she said.

Flora was in the garden, the pram containing the doll with her.

“She’s well now, aren’t you, dear?” said Lucy to her.

Flora nodded. She was pushing the pram backwards and forwards.

“This rocking gets him off to sleep sooner than anything,” she said.

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