The Lady on My Left by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780593041888
Google: 2b76eU0Q67gC
Goodreads: 670396
Publisher: Corgi
Published: 1965-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

‘I don’t know.’

‘But, Paul!’ Her voice was high. ‘It’s all she’s got.’

‘All she’s got!’ He almost spat the words out. ‘She’s had too much for too long, has Mrs Gordon-Platt. That’s her trouble. I understood you to say that she wants her daughter to have these. Is that right?’

‘Yes, that’s what Miss Beck said.’

‘Well, you never know with a woman like that. I think it would be wiser for us to keep them until the daughter turns up.’

Alison sat back on her heels and stared up at Paul. She couldn’t believe it. She couldn’t believe that Paul, the man who wouldn’t get mixed up in any rings or questionable deals, should be talking in this way. He wanted to keep this find. Legally, she supposed, it belonged to him. Or did it? She would have to enquire; this was the first time the question had arisen.

Paul was now bending towards her, talking quietly, persuasively, ‘Look, we won’t do anything yet. The albums can be returned to the storeroom, but we’ll keep this’—he tapped the writing case—‘in a safe place.’

‘No, Paul, please.’

At this point they heard the sound of the shop doorbell ringing, and as Alison wondered dazedly who it could be, Paul’s head jerked to one side with sharp impatience as he exclaimed, ‘That will be him, your Mr Roy.’ There was undisguised bitterness in his voice, and now his hand came out and, gripping her shoulder, he said under his breath, ‘Listen, Alison, listen to me. We’ll do nothing about this matter until we’ve talked again. And don’t mention it to anyone. Do you hear?’

‘But, Paul…’

‘Alison, I’m asking you to do something for me. Simply wait until we talk about this again. If he wasn’t here now perhaps we could go on and discuss it, but he’s at the door. Now look, go down and let him in. You can stall for a time; I’ll leave that to you.’ The corner of his mouth quivered.

She backed away from him and he said quietly to her now, ‘Don’t look at me like that, Alison.’ When she did not answer he went on, ‘Give me time to put these things away; he mustn’t see them.’

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