The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters

Author:Minette Walters [Walters, Minette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

Sarah found him in the garden when she came home at three-thirty after helping to deliver Polly Graham of a healthy baby daughter. He was forking industriously round some roses and scattering handfuls of fertilizer about the roots. ‘It’s almost December,’ she said. ‘Everything’s dormant. You’re wasting your time.’

‘I know.’ He looked up and she thought she saw traces of tears in his eyes. ‘I just needed to do something active.’

‘Where’s Ruth?’

‘Asleep. She had a headache so I gave her some codeine and packed her off to bed.’ He brushed the hair from his forehead with the back of a muddy hand. ‘Have you finished for the day?’

She nodded. ‘What’s happened?’

He leant on the fork and stared across the fields. The slowly fading light gave a misty quality to a landscape in which cows grazed and trees, shorn of their leaves, fingered the sky with dark filigree lacework. ‘That’s the England men and women die for,’ he said gruffly.

She followed his gaze with a small frown creasing her forehead.

Tears glistened on his lashes. ‘Do you know that poem by Rupert Brooke? “The Soldier”. The one that goes:

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