Something Dangerous (Spoils Of Time 02) - Plot & Excerpts
I’ve decided.’‘You can’t. You know Mummy said it would just worry him, we weren’t to tell him, that it would be a lovely surprise when he got home. And it’s not your secret.’‘It’s not even a secret.’‘Yes it is.’‘Roo, you’re being ridiculous. How can a baby be a secret? And I think he’d like to know. He likes babies anyway, he told me when Amy was born. And Fergal is quite big now. I mean, he’s one, not even a baby any more. It’s so nice to know they like each other again, don’t you think?’Roo was silent; a lifetime of at least appearing to defer to his elder brother had taught him discretion. Henry obviously meant what he said. He had that look about him. And maybe he was right; after all he was almost grown up now, really tall, and his voice had broken. He looked very like their father; Roo, who missed Boy dreadfully, would sometimes almost think it was him if Henry came unexpectedly into the room.Roo had joined Henry at Eton now; when the two of them went off together for the first time from Ashingham that spring, waving slightly grandly from the car, oddly handsome in their tailcoats, Joan Miller was not the only person to cry.‘It just doesn’t seem possible,’ she said to Lord Beckenham, who was standing next to her, openly wiping his eyes.
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