Ellery Queen - 1937 - The Door Between by Ellery Queen

Author:Ellery Queen [Queen, Ellery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-15T12:09:12+00:00

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Venetia, hovering in the bedroom doorway, was shocked.

“Eva! You—that ain’t decent!”

“Go away,” said Dr. Scott.

“Now, you listen to me, suh! I’m goin’ right in an’ tell Dr. John—”

“Venetia,” said Eva through her teeth, “go away.”

“But yo’ hair—it’s all mussed, and you’s in bare feet!”

“I don’t care,” said Eva, and kissed Dr. Scott for the third time. He felt her body tremble under the woolly toweling.

“You’ll catch yo’ death of cold on that floor!”

Dr. Scott detached himself from Eva’s arms, went to the bedroom door, and firmly closed it in Venetia’s outraged face. Then he came back and picked Eva up and sat down with her in the Cape Cod rocker.

“Oh, Dick,” moaned Eva.

“Don’t talk, darling.”

He held her very tightly, and Eva through the warmth of his arms and her own distress began dimly to wonder. There was something bothering him. That was it. He was comforting her, but it was really himself he was trying to comfort. And his unwillingness to talk showed that he didn’t want to think, he didn’t want to think about anything. He just wanted to sit there holding her in his arms and feeling her closeness.

She pushed away from him and flung her hair back from her eyes.

“What’s the matter, Dick?”

“Matter? Why do you ask that? Nothing at all.” He tried to pull her down again. “Let’s not talk, Eva. Let’s just sit.”

“But there is something wrong. I know it.” He tried to smile. “What makes you so intuitive all of a sudden? It’s been a bad day, that’s all.”

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