The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill

Author:Susan Hill [Hill, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-36955-0
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2008-06-06T21:00:00+00:00

It was picked up on the second ring.

“It’s Jane,” she said. “I’m at Imogen House.”

*

Ten minutes later she was sitting beside Karin McCafferty. The nurses had not yet moved her body, though the syringe pump and drip stand had been taken away. The lamp was on. They had closed the door.

Karin looked like a moth under the bedclothes, her skin fine, and almost transparent over the bones, her hair brushed and tied back, lying on the slightly raised pillows. Jane took her cool hand and put it to her own cheek.

“I know you won’t blame me, but I should have been here. I wish I had been. I’m sorry.” Karin’s eyelids were faintly blue, like those of a newborn baby. She was beautiful in death, as she had been in life, but remote. Sometimes, Jane had been with the dying and the newly dead and had had a powerful sense of their presence. But not now. Karin was as far away as it was possible to be and had left no trace of herself behind.

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