The India Fan by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2010-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

While I sat leaning against the hedge of the paddock I often found myself looking up at a certain window and remembering how, years ago, Miss Lucille used to look down on us having our riding lesson.

One day I saw the curtains move. A figure stood at the window looking down at me. Miss Lucille. I lifted a hand and waved. There was no response, and after a while I saw her move away as though she were being led.

I saw her often after that. I usually would be there in the afternoon, and often at the same time. It was like an arrangement between us.

I was getting more and more uneasy about my father. He talked now and then of my mother, and I felt he was finding great satisfaction in living in the past.

verything she was going to do was for you,he told me dreamily when he had nodded off when I was reading and had awakened suddenly to find that I had stopped. he so much wanted a child. I was glad she lived long enough to see you. I never saw anything more beautiful than her face when she held you in her arms. She wanted everything for you. She wanted you well settled in life. I glad Colin Brady is here. He a good man. I trust him as I feel I can trust few others.

es,I agreed, e has been good.

el take over when I gone. It right that he should. Hel be better at the job than I was.

ou are very much liked here, Father.

oo forgetful. Not really cut out to be a parson.

nd you think Colin is?

o the manner born. He got it in his blood. His father and grandfather were both in the Church. Drusilla, you could do far worse and you couldn do better. He a man I trust with you.

lot of people seem to think it would be convenient if I married Colin Brady.

he rectory would always be your home.

es. But does one marry for a home? Did you?

He was smiling, his mind drifting back to the days when my mother was alive.

ou could do far worse,he murmured.

They were all concerned for my future and the answer seemed obvious to them even to my father.

One day when I was in the paddock Ayesha came to me. I was startled to see her. She smiled at me and said, ou come here often.

t so quiet and peaceful.

uiet peaceful,she repeated. y mistress sees you. She looks for you.

es, I have seen her.

he wishes to speak to you.

ith me?

She nodded. he has never forgotten you.

h you mean that time I took the fan.

oor soul. She lives much in the past. She is ill, I fear very ill. She talks of joining Gerald He was her lover. It is wonderful to see with what joy she contemplates the reunion. Shall we go? You see, she watches us from the window. Very much she wishes to speak with you.

I followed Ayesha into the house and up the great staircase, hoping that we should not meet Lady Harriet on the way.

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