Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder by Murder (Uc) (Pg) (1976) Sleepin

Author:Murder (Uc) (Pg) (1976) Sleepin [Sleepin, Murder]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Northumberland, I think it was. Anyway, they liked coming south for a holiday because it was so mild down here.”

Gwenda said: “She was afraid of something,

wasn’t she? Or of someone? My

stepmother, I mean.”

“I do remember—now that you say

that — “

“Yes ?”

“Lily came into the kitchen one day.

She’d been dusting the stairs, and she

said, ‘Ructions!5 she said. She had a very

common way of talking sometimes. Lily

had, so you must excuse me.

“So I asked her what she meant and she

said that the missus had come in from the

garden with the master into the drawingroom

and the door to the hall being open, Lily’d heard what they said.

” ‘I’m afraid of you,’ that’s what Mrs.

Halliday had said.

” ‘And she sounded scared too,’ Lily

said. ^Pve been afraid of you for a long time.

You’re mad. You’re not normal. Go away

and leave me alone. You must leave me alone. Pm frightened. I think, underneath, I’ve always been frightened of you …’

“Something of that kind — of course I

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