‘I’m so sorry. This must be awful for you.’ Not nearly as awful as for Erland, he thought grimly. ‘Were you with him?’ The question was so sharp that Poppy looked at him oddly for a moment. She shook her head. ‘No, just Lena. She told me – how it was,’ she added awkwardly. ‘And where is she now?’ he demanded, aware that his cold tone showed a certain lack of feeling for the bereaved bride-to-be. Gabriel and Morris retired into the drawing room and gently closed the door on his grief, interpreting his Calvinist reactions as too emotionally bound up to burst into tears as any of them would have considered quite the normal thing in such sad circumstances. They were wrong. If they had known Jeremy Faro better, they would have realised it was far from the truth. ‘Where is Lena?’ he repeated. Poppy regarded him tearfully. ‘She went to her room.’ Touching his arm, she whispered, ‘She is distraught.
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