Ticket to Oblivion by Edward Marston

Author:Edward Marston [Marston, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 9780749016456
Google: fihCAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00HUTVWDI
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2014-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Clive Tunnadine was not without his finer feelings. Having used his mistress to allay his frustration, he began to be troubled by remorse. Lucinda Graham had met his needs for over twelve enjoyable months and deserved more than to be treated with such inconsiderate brutality. He needed to make amends. When he returned to the house, therefore, he did so with a basket of flowers and a series of apologies. Having nursed her resentment, Lucinda was inclined to rebuff him but Tunnadine continued to smooth her ruffled feathers and to tell her how much she meant to him. Her anger slowly melted into a vague feeling of pleasure. What eventually won her round was the promise that, after his marriage, he would still retain his intimate relationship with her. Lucinda might be able to stay at the house, after all.

‘I’m still very cross with you,’ she warned.

‘You’ve every right to be so.’

‘It will take more than a basket of flowers to make me forgive you.’

‘A fresh supply of flowers will arrive every week,’ he promised.

‘What would please me more is an explanation. You’ve dealt with me roughly before but not with the same violence as you did this last time. What did I do to provoke such behaviour? For what offence was I being punished?’

‘It was not punishment, Lucinda,’ he assured her. ‘It was a mistake.’

‘You were like a man possessed.’

‘I can see that now and I swear that it will never happen again. All that I can tell you is that …’ he paused as he searched for the words ‘… is that there has been a serious problem in my private life that has yet to be resolved. That’s no reason to behave as I did towards you, of course. What I did was reprehensible. Suffice it to say that it belongs in the past. Our future together will be a source of continuous pleasure to both of us.’

‘I trust that it will be,’ said Lucinda, forcefully. ‘I’ll not stay to be treated again so harshly. Use me as the loving friend that I am and not as a common trull whose slit can be bought cheaply in the backstreets of Seven Dials.’

Tunnadine admired her show of spirit. It made him enfold her gently in his arms and kiss her full on the lips. Lucinda pulled away.

‘Will you spend the night here?’ she asked.

‘No, Lucinda. I have to go. There’s someone I must see.’

She was about to ask if the meeting related to the problem of which he’d spoken but she checked herself. Certain that he’d been referring to his forthcoming marriage, she remembered what had happened when she’d first mentioned the event. It had caused him to stalk out and slam the door on her. Now that they’d been reconciled, she had no wish to upset him again. By way of a farewell, he took a long, luscious kiss from her and left her feeling once more that he really cared for her.

‘When will I see you again?’

‘It will be as soon as I may arrange it,’ he promised.

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