The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell
Author:Ruth Rendell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407089676
Publisher: Random House
Chapter 14
EDMUND HEARD HEATHER put the receiver down. He was in the living room of their flat, hanging the few paintings he had brought from Chudleigh Hill, polishing the glass and renewing the picture cords, and Heather was in the tiny hallway.
‘I could hear you,’ he said when she came in. ‘You sounded quite friendly.’
‘If we are, isn’t it better that way?’
He turned round and looked at her. A deep flush coloured her forehead and cheeks. He had never seen her look like this before and he realised he was witnessing some powerful emotion which somehow changed her face but he was unable to say what that emotion might be. Fear? Shame? Pity? No, anger.
‘What is it?’
‘Nothing,’ she said and her voice was low-pitched and slow. ‘Nothing really.’
‘She won’t give him up? No, of course not. Did you ever seriously think she would?’
‘I hoped.’ Heather gave a cry of rage, of fury, and clenched her hands. He had never seen her lose control before and he stared. ‘I hoped she’d do a – well, a good action. She’s not in love with him. She’s more or less said.’ She grew calmer and took a deep breath. ‘You said we sounded friendly. She talks to me now like I was a friend of hers. She calls me by my name. But she won’t budge. She wants to keep hold of him.’
‘I’m not surprised.’
She turned on him and he expected something he had never had from her, shouting, reproach, anger, perhaps insults. But she put her parted lips together, touched her hot cheeks with her fingertips and came up to him to kiss him.
‘I shall try again, Ed. I can’t give up.’
‘I can see that.’
‘I forgot to tell you. Issy’s had her handbag stolen, her Marc Jacobs bag.’
‘Who’s Marc Jacobs?’
‘You sound like some old judge. They never know who anyone is. He’s a designer. Luckily, she always carries her keys separately but the thief took everything else, her wallet with quite a lot of money in it and three credit cards, her mobile, her diary. It happened when she was getting into the tube.’
‘Coping with all that may at least take her mind off Andrew.’
‘It won’t,’ said Heather, thinking, though fondly, that that was just like a man, a man’s judgement.
Eva hadn’t told Andrew and she hadn’t told Daddy. When Andrew came round to take her out to dinner she had asked him if a socialite was the same thing as being in the Labour Government and he had laughed so much that his face had turned unbecomingly red. She had shouted at him not to be so mean and beastly and his laughing some more had put an end to her speaking to him at all for the next hour. As for Daddy, he’d probably advise her to tell the police. Daddy loved the police almost as much as he loved the army and was thrilled to see so many of them carrying guns these days.
Besides, telling Andrew would require bringing her own feelings about him out into the open.
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