Ellis Peters - George Felse 07 - The Grass Widow's Tale - Plot & Excerpts
She saw his lips moving automatically over the incredible syllables, and understanding came in a late, disruptive agony, and set him shaking again.“My God, I wish that was even possible,” he said, panting, “but it’s crazy. Look, there were only two characters in all this lousy scene, Pippa and me. Nobody else! Don’t you start kidding me along at this stage. It’s nice of you even to pretend to believe I might be human, after all I’ve done to you, but…”“I’m not pretending,” she said strongly. “That’s what I do believe. Time’s short, I can’t spare any for kidding you along, and you can’t spare any for having doubts about me, if we’re going to make anything of this mess.”“Make anything of it?” he echoed incredulously. “For God’s sake, what is there left to make, except restitution?”“We could begin by making sense of what we know. Know, not assume.”He clutched helplessly at his head, squeezed his thin grey cheeks hard between his hands, and shook himself till the lank dark hair flopped on his forehead; but when he opened his eyes again and stared up at her dizzily until her image cleared, she was still confronting him with the same fixed and resolute face.“Don’t!”
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