The Firebird's Feather by Marjorie Eccles

Author:Marjorie Eccles
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780727884268
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2014-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Marcus had stayed with the decision he’d made on Sunday evening: rather than spend an impatient night waiting until he could see his father the next day here in London, he’d driven down to Loddhurst, only to find on arrival they’d missed each other. While he had been driving down, his father had been on a train travelling in the opposite direction, to London. His manservant informed Marcus that in order to give himself more time the following day before he needed to leave London for Paris, Sir Aiden had decided to put up for the night at his club; he himself had telephoned Mrs Stanhope’s residence to leave a message for Marcus that his father would call on him shortly after breakfast, but he had been too late.

Marcus cursed himself for not telephoning his own intentions to drive down to Loddhurst, but at the same time he didn’t feel inclined to drive straight back to London. He would stay the night at Loddhurst, set off very early the next morning and catch his father breakfasting at his club. But even in that he was frustrated. A puncture on the way back (a commonplace hazard of motoring on unmetalled country roads) held him up and he arrived to find Sir Aiden was already on his way to Paris.

He also found a note had been left for him to say that Sergeant Inskip had called. He would be obliged if Marcus would present himself at the police station at the earliest possible moment. Inskip. What did he want? Marcus had spoken to him and to Chief Inspector Gaines after the shooting had happened and he didn’t want to talk to either of them any more until he’d had the chance to speak with his father. In the circumstances, with Sir Aiden in Paris, this might not occur for some time. He felt himself in a dark mood. Hiding in a corner of his mind, still waiting to spring out, was that demon asking whether he had unwittingly done anything – anything at all – that might have contributed towards the death of a woman he had come to consider a friend. Albeit one whom he felt he had never really known, a woman outwardly so extrovert, but who he’d discovered had secrets even from her family. It wasn’t, however, in his quick, impatient nature to mope, and certainly not over something that might only exist in his imagination. And over and above that was the need to see Kitty.

Nothing had passed between himself and Lydia on the subject of Kitty but he was fairly certain she had known how he felt, and had not been entirely averse to the idea of a match between him and her daughter. Why else had she tried to get Kitty to join them on those morning rides, left him alone with her for long periods while she herself was dressing, if not to encourage their acquaintance? At the same time she’d made it clear that Kitty was to be allowed her first Season.

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