At last he said, ‘I suppose I went there for a confrontation.’ His mouth twisted slightly. ‘I’m not,’ he said briefly, and there was a silence. She said abruptly, ‘What were you doing at Calthorpe, anyway? You don’t usually go to watch Nigel. Now, at the worst moment of her life, their worlds seemed to have collided, and she felt uneasy about it. He was almost like Nigel’s shadow, she’d thought. He had been quietly polite, his handshake firm as he greeted her, but Amanda had found his manner chilling, and was absurdly glad that he and Nigel inhabited such very different worlds. Their basic colouring was the same, they were both brown-haired and blue-eyed, but Malory’s skin was almost pale when contrasted with Nigel’s robust tan. When she had first met him, she’d been conscious of a vague disappointment, because she supposed she’d been expecting an older edition of Nigel, with the same outgoing charm and rakish good looks.īut Malory Templeton had been totally different, shorter than Nigel-barely six feet, she estimated-and built on a more slender scale, too. She said an ungracious, ‘No,’ then added reluctantly, ‘Thank you’ because she supposed he meant to be kind, although kindness wasn’t a quality she’d particularly associated with him before.īut then, she didn’t really know very much about him at all, except that he was Nigel’s older brother, and the head of Templeton Laboratories. 'I didn’t intend you to,‘ he said equably.
I followed you, in the first instance, because I was worried about you driving in the state you were in. I think, when you ran, you were hurt and confused and wanting, in some muddled way, to hit back at Nigel-to punish him-hurt him as he’d hurt you. ‘I think you’re made of stronger stuff than that, my child.
‘Simply because you found Nigel cavorting in bed with another lady?’ He shook his head. ‘That’s not true,’ she said shakily, replacing her cup on the table. In fact, you were having second thoughts about jumping, even before I got to you. ‘But, when it came down to it, you’d have fought. Malory said gravely, ‘You probably wouldn’t have drowned, you know. Damming it back, she drank some more tea. She thought of her mother, happily shopping for something to wear for her important role as mother of the bride, and felt another wellspring of grief rising inside her. Important Reasons for Having Mirrors in Elevators
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