Spanish Inquisition by Elizabeth Darrell

Author:Elizabeth Darrell [Elizabeth Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2012-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Max’s non-appearance on Wednesday led Tom to believe Clare Goodey’s strictures had persuaded him to stick to the rules until passed fit by the Medical Board. Paradoxically, he missed the input of a man who often saw a different interpretation of plain facts which sometimes furthered a case. On the other hand, it often clouded the issue. He went home to Nora and his family believing he must do without Max’s help in getting to grips with the ever growing complications surrounding Corporal Maria Norton.

Tom was wrong. After the momentous discovery that the future he so much wanted was there to grasp, Max sat for an hour or so after Clare left to take the morning sick parade and allowed his imagination full rein. A home. A real home. A property with enough rooms for children to occupy and grow up in; one which he and Clare owned, not rented. A house that would reflect both their personalities. They would also have the villa in Spain. Everything was possible now.

By mid-morning he was sitting at the desk in his own apartment, making notes on the Norton case from copies of the team’s reports he had collected before leaving the base yesterday afternoon. There were by now so many facets he decided to concentrate on the one which concerned him the most, and he spent several hours catagorizing paragraphs from statements in order to get a clear assessment of known facts.

In the afternoon he undertook another task which he intended to reveal to Clare at the end of the day. Before that they were to have the meal at the riverside inn they liked so much which they should have had on Monday. They had no sooner been shown to the table he had reserved than Herr Blomfeld arrived with a bottle of champagne.

‘Please to accept with my goodest wishes for both,’ he said, popping the cork and pouring the sparkling wine in two glasses he had brought with him. ‘I have never forget the pulling from the river the young woman who could die. You are special from then. Now even more special to have the bombing and again come to this place,’ he added looking at Max. ‘I am most thankful.’

Max was embarrassed. The words were clearly heartfelt, so he responded appropriately, but he was glad when Blomfeld walked away wreathed in smiles.

‘What a sweetie,’ said Clare.

‘Doubtless he had planned that for Monday, but you called my mobile and put an end to it. I was so upset I drove off without giving him an explanation. Just left.’

‘That won’t happen tonight now we’ve left our mobiles at home.’ She smiled at him as she raised her glass. ‘Prost!’

On sudden impulse Max put out his hand and gently eased hers back to the table. ‘I planned this for when we got home but you look so lovely, we’re at the place where you claim to have realized your true feelings for me, and we have a bottle of celebration champagne, so this seems the right moment.

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