Enemy Lover by Pamela Kent

Author:Pamela Kent
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-31T18:31:23+00:00

“Very,” he agreed, and the dryness of his voice was a dryness that could be felt.

He got back into his seat on the other side of the glass partition, and once more they were on their way, and once more the view from the car windows seemed extremely depressing to Tina as it slid past. By four o’clock it was already dark, and it was snowing in earnest as they crossed the bleak Derbyshire moors. Tina was perfectly warm and comfortable in the back of the luxurious car, and there was a strange sense of security in the small, enclosed space. But when the fat flakes of snow flattened themselves against the car windows, and perhaps because they were new the windscreen wipers didn’t seem to function very well, she began to wonder how much farther they could proceed without being forced to stop at the first lighted village they came to.

Lighted village was not a very apt description of the one they finally stopped at, for apart from the inn there were hardly any lights at all. The inclement weather had driven everyone indoors, and curtains were drawn against the wildness of the night outside. The inn, a lonely, lost little place, looked as if it would hardly have accommodation for a couple of visitors, but Angus, leaving the warmth of his driving compartment and slipping out into the snow, announced bleakly that it was to be hoped they could be put up there because he wouldn’t trust the Bentley on the treacherous roads ahead in that sort of weather.

“I’d hoped to reach Manchester, or somewhere civilised like that, but it seems that we can’t make it. If necessary you can sit up in the inn parlour all night but I’ve no doubt the landlady will find a room for you. I’ll have to make my way to a garage, if there is one near. This was hardly the right season of the year to make a long * * •> journey in a new car.”

Tina looked at him anxiously.

“But if there isn’t a garage near, you’ll have to wait till * •> morning... ”

The inn door had opened, and a face looked out at them. Behind the face was bright firelight and lamplight, and Tina was heartily relieved when she found herself in the heavily beamed room, with a row of curious faces looking at her as their owners sat on bench near the fire, and the landlord bawled lustily for his wife. When she came, wiping her hands on an apron, she was obviously considerably surprised by the sight of a young woman in a fur-trimmed coat, with snowflakes adhering to her soft fair hair and an expensive pouch handbag clasped beneath her aim, standing looking hesitantly about her while a liveried chauffeur who towered above her demanded with a touch of arrogance whether they could be accommodated for the night.

“Well, as to that, sir, I don’t rightly know,” she began.

And then Tina’s eyes appealed to her,

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