The Waters Lovely by Ruth Rendell

Author:Ruth Rendell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-03-17T13:00:00+00:00

"If we are, isn't it better that way?"

Edmund turned around and looked at her. A deep red flush colored her forehead and cheeks. He had never seen her look like this before and he now realized he was witnessing some powerful emotion which somehow changed her face, but he was unable

to say what that emotion might be. Fear? Shame? Pity? No, it was anger.

"What is it?"

"Nothing," she said and her voice was low-pitched and slow. "Nothing really."

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"She won't give him up? No, of course not. Did you ever seriously think she would?"

"I hoped." Heather gave a cry of rage, of fury, and clenched

her hands. He had never seen her lose control before and he stared. "I hoped she'd do a—well, a good action. She's not in love with him. She's more or less said." She grew calmer and took a deep breath. "You said we sounded friendly. She talks to me now like I was a friend of hers. She calls me by my name. But she won't budge. She wants to keep hold of him."

"I'm not surprised."

She turned on him and he expected something he had never

had from her, shouting, reproach, anger, perhaps insults. But she

put her parted lips together, touched her hot cheeks with her fingertips, and came up to him to kiss him.

"I shall try again, Ed. I can't give up." "I can see that."

"I forgot to tell you. Issy's had her handbag stolen, her Marc Jacobs bag."

"Who's Marc Jacobs?"

"You sound like some old judge. They never know who anyone

is. He's a designer. Luckily, she always carries her keys separately but the thief took everything else, her wallet with quite a lot

of money in it and three credit cards, her mobile, her diary. It happened when she was getting into the tube."

"Coping with all that may at least take her mind off Andrew." "It won't," said Heather, thinking, though fondly, that that was just like a man, a man's judgment.

Eva hadn't told Andrew and she hadn't told Daddy. When Andrew came around to take her out to dinner she had asked him if a

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socialite was the same thing as being in the Labour Government, and he had laughed so much that his face had turned unbecomingly red. She had shouted at him not to be so mean and beastly

and his laughing some more had put an end to her speaking to

him at all for the next hour. As for Daddy, he'd probably advise her to tell the police. Daddy loved the police almost as much as he loved the army and was thrilled to see so many of them carrying guns these days.

Besides, telling Andrew would require bringing her own feelings about him out into the open. Young as she was, Eva was the

kind of girl who believes it is best never to show a man how you feel about him and lethal to let him believe you will hang on to him at all costs. And anyway, she wouldn't and she didn't really know how she felt about him.

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