Snare of Serpents by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Parricide, Contemporary, Edinburgh (Scotland), Stepmothers
ISBN: 9780449219287
Publisher: Ivy Books
Published: 1990-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Roger Lestrange was looking at me intently, his eyes more blue than I remembered them. “You’ll have to look on it as an experience, Miss Grey. It’s lucky we were here and the horse didn’t gallop off. That could have been … well … let’s not think of it. You’re not hurt … that’s the important thing. It was just a bit of mischief on the part of the horse. He knew you weren’t up to all the tricks he could play … so he tried one. They’re like that sometimes, aren’t they, John?”

“Aye, sir, they be that,” said John. “You make sure when you mount him, Miss. Look, like this. He couldn’t have done it then.”

“All’s well that ends well,” said Roger Lestrange. “Do you feel like mounting again, Miss Grey?”

“I must.”

“That’s the spirit. Never give up. At least you won’t do that again. Just give him a pat to show he’s forgiven and he’ll be friends again. That’s so, isn’t it, John?”

“Aye, sir, that be it.”

Rather shakily I mounted the horse; but I was not thinking of the danger I might have been in but of the shrill penetrating cry of “Miss Davina!”

Lilias and I rode back to the vicarage in silence. We had no need for speech. Each of us knew what was in the other’s mind.

I went straight to my room, and sat staring out at the graveyard.

“Davina,” Ninian Grainger had said. “It’s an unusual name.” What if Roger Lestrange had noticed? What if he remembered that I came from Edinburgh?

There was a knock on the door and I knew it was Lilias. She came in and stood for a few seconds looking at me.

“He must have heard,” I said.

“He probably didn’t notice.”

“It was so loud and clear.”

“Only to us because we understood. I am sure Kitty was very upset about it. It came out involuntarily. It’s understandable. She was worried about you. She looked so … penitent. She didn’t mean any harm. That’s the last thing. But she thought you were going to be hurt and it slipped out naturally. I don’t think anyone noticed. We were too concerned about you.”

I said suddenly: “I’m going to write to Ninian Grainger to ask him to put me in touch with Mrs. Crown.”

“Well … I suppose you might go and hear what she has to say. There’s no commitment in that.”

“I think I have made up my mind. It’s what I’m going to do.

I can’t stay here … on edge, as it were … just waiting for something to come up … like this morning.”

“I think you have been more upset by that than by the accident. If that horse had started to gallop you could have been very seriously hurt.”

“I know. But it’s showed me that when Kitty called out my name like that, it’s the sort of thing that could happen at any time. I am going to explore this possibility.”

Lilias said slowly: “I see.”

She left me and I sat down and wrote a letter to Ninian Grainger.

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