The Measby Murder Enquiry (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
“Do you feel this is your home, Ivy?” Roy said to her one afternoon as they rested in her room after lunch. She did not talk much about Round Ringford, unless someone asked her questions about her former life, but he knew that she must miss it dreadfully. Maybe not all the time, but even he, who had been at Springfields much longer than Ivy, was occasionally saddened by a sudden picture in his mind of a sunny morning as he stepped out of his house into a yard busy with the life of the farm. In Ivy’s case he could picture her working in her neat vegetable garden or sitting with her friends Doris and Ellen, drinking tea from her best cups. “It’s all we’ve got, isn’t it?” Ivy said, looking at him in surprise. In all the years of her spinsterhood, she had never dreamed that loving someone as she loved Roy could be so overwhelming. She took his hand and held it to her cheek. “The thing is, Roy,” she continued awkwardly, “if you ask me, I’d say that home is where the heart is.
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