The Demon Lover by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Suspense
ISBN: 9780385182225
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1982-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

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“You mean someone may have …”

“Oh, no, no, no! Whether she did it herself or slipped and lost her balance …”

“But she would never kill herself. She was such a timid creature. Oh dear, what an awful thing. Poor Faith! It is terrible when something like that happens to someone you have known.”

I kept seeing Faith and I couldn’t see Faith without Hope. They were always together. Faith clinging to her twin as though her life depended on that support. Poor, poor Faith.

Clare was clearly too overcome for speech. I remembered how friendly she had always been with the twins.

“It’s dangerous up there,” my father went on.

“They’ve fenced it off now.”

“Rather like shutting the stable door when the horse has run away,” I commented.

“Oh poor Faith! What about Hope and the doctor and his wife?”

“Very cut up … all of them. It’s a good thing that Hope is getting married and going away.”

“Do you think that Faith … Do you think it was because of Hope’s engagement?”

“We don’t know,” replied my father.

“The verdict was accidental death.

It’s better to leave it like that for everybody’s sake. “

I nodded.

Clare was quietly crying.

I leaned over and touched her hands. She turned her swimming eyes to me.

“She was my special friend,” she said.

“They both were … but I think Faith specially … more than Hope. It was terrible.”

There was silence at the table. Then my father said: “I wonder what she would have done when Hope married.”

“Poor Faith,” said Clare, ‘she would have been lost without her sister.

”

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