Faith didn’t want to go. She hadn’t seen him since he had come home, she had deliberately stayed well away from the house. ‘I don’t think I can bear to be in the same room,’ she told her mother. ‘You only have to be polite to him for an hour or two, Faith,’ her mother said. ‘It won’t kill you.’ Faith put on her oldest dress. It was blue and mended. It had the kind of big sleeves which were no longer fashionable. It had been John’s favourite dress. She put up her hair in the most severe style and then she walked across and down the street with her parents, with thumping heart and uneven breath. Nancy did not open the door. There was a new maid whom Faith did not recognise. Rob’s father and mother were sitting by the fire, and in the room were the two most stylish men Faith had ever seen. She began to wish that she could have changed her hair, her dress and several other things. Both of them were tall and dark and they stood up as she walked into the room. One of them had eyes which were the nearest thing to chocolate, and the other had smoky eyes and, but for that, looked exactly as John Berkeley had looked the last time that she had seen him alive.
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