The Judas Kiss by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780449200551
Google: LFqTPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0006167519
Goodreads: 2800257
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1980-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

“Oh, you wouldn’t want to get muddled up in all that, Miss Pip. You ought to settle down and marry some nice young man. You haven’t got to worry about money now, have you? Get married and have babies. I can tell you this. .. . there’s nothing I can think of better than holding your own little baby in your arms… .”

“Oh, Daisy, it’s lovely to think of you as a mother.”

“You ought to see my little Hansie.”

“I wish I could.” I was looking straight at her. “Daisy,” I went on, “why shouldn’t I?”

The idea had come and it would not be dismissed. It excited me as I had not been excited for a long time. It would give me a reason for living; it would get me away from the atmosphere of furtive suspicion from which I could not escape. At the back of my mind was the thought that I might see Conrad again.

During the last weeks the possibility that there might be results from my encounter with him had occurred to me. Somehow I had rather hoped there would be. It would add very much to the complications of my life, but I think the joy it would have brought me would have compensated for that. It would have put me in a desperate situation … but to have had a child, a living memory of the hours I had spent with Conrad, filled me with longing.

It was a strange mingling of relief and disappointment when I knew that I had definitely not become pregnant, and I felt I had to give myself a reason for living. And now that Daisy had appeared she had, in a way, opened a door for me.

“Daisy,” I said, “how would it be if I came back with you?”

“You, Miss Pip! Back with me?”

“I have money now. I am free, thanks to my grandmother. I want to find that child of Francine’s. He exists, 1 know. Sometimes I feel he is calling for me. He would be nearly four years old by now. If he’s there I should like to see him. I want to make sure that he is well looked after.”

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