The Mistress's Child by Sharon Kendrick

Author:Sharon Kendrick [Kendrick, Sharon]
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

papers heaped up on the table, as if someone had been using it for a office. Philip looked around the room slowly, but said nothing.

'Where next?' asked Lisi brightly.

'To the next enchanting room,' he murmured.

Perversely, his criticism stung her, making her realise that she was still more attached to the place than she was sure she should be. How she wished he could have seen it when she had lived here, particularly at this time of the year. At Christmas it had come into its own. The hall used to be festooned with fresh laurel from the garden and stacks and stacks of holly and great sprigs of mistletoe had been bunched everywhere.

The choir would come from the church next door on Christmas Eve, and drink sherry and eat mince pies and the big, wide corridors would echo with the sound of excited chatter, while in the sitting room a log fire had blazed out its warmth.

Fortunately—or unfortunately in Lisi's case—no neglect could mar the beauty of the sitting room. The high ceiling and the carved marble fireplace drew the attention away from the fact that the curtains could have done with a good clean.

Philip nodded and walked slowly around the room, his eyes narrowing with pleasure as he looked out of the long window down into the garden beyond.

A winter-bare garden but beautiful nevertheless, he thought, with mature trees and bushes which were silhouetted against the curved shapes of the flower beds.

Lisi wandered over to the window and stood beside him, past and present becoming fused for one brief, poignant moment.

'You should see it in springtime,' she observed fondly.

He heard the dreamy quality of her voice which was so at odds with her attitude of earlier. 'Oh?'

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