The Grass Widow's Tale by Ellis Peters

Author:Ellis Peters
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Police, Mystery & Detective, General, George (Fictitious character), Traditional British, Felse, Large type books, Fiction
ISBN: 9780786245079
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2002-11-15T14:19:30.152000+00:00

“Keys?” he echoed, shaken, blinded, transfigured with realisation. “Keys!”

He began to shake uncontrollably, and she put her arm round him and held him strongly, watching his face. In similar circumstances she might even have ventured to put her arms round Dominic, yes, even at his ripe, daunting age of twenty, rising twenty-one, though with Dominic she would have had to go very much more carefully, simply because he was her son, and still a little in love with her, and terribly in love with someone else, and jealous of his own manhood. Luke was an easier case, their relationship, complex as it might be, had not that ultimate complexity.

“Yes, her keys. Didn’t you think of them? Her suitcase wasn’t locked, was it? Would Pippa go anywhere with her suitcase unlocked? Of course she locked it! Of course she had her keys with her, here, in this handbag. She was locking up her flat, wasn’t she? She was locking her luggage. He—whoever he was—he took her keys to look through her case, and he didn’t find what he was looking for, so he kept the keys. Why? To look for it in her flat… don’t you think so?”

She led him in her arm to the nearest of the white wicker chairs and persuaded him into it, and sat on the arm and held him against her shoulder, talking to him in a soft, reasonable, detached voice, coaxing and reassuring without directly doing either.

“He wanted something she had, or something he believed she had. He thought it would be in her case, but it wasn’t. So he went to her flat to hunt for it there. Now you know,” she said, and had no need, and felt none, to explain what it was that he knew.

“There was someone there,” he said, suddenly laughing, shaking with laughter like a lunatic. “I didn’t…” And he put his head down in her lap and laughed and wept, with relief, with rapture, because he wasn’t a murderer.

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