Nathan’s words seem to pummel him from a great distance. He touched his eyes with tentative fingers, certain they were bulging from their sockets. He resolved right then to never touch spirits again, especially since he thought his son had shouted that Mary had given them the slip. No, no, Nathan couldn’t have shouted, not if the look on his face was any indication. Tears slid down his face as his son mourned silently. In one of her rare bursts of candour, Mrs Pritchert had written to him once that for days after his frigate sailed back to the Channel Fleet, Nathan would just sit by his window, weeping in silence. ‘I give him time to grieve,’ she had written, ‘and then it’s back to our lives.’ But watching his father come and go was Nathan’s life, Ross realised, as he looked at his son, still dressed in his nightshirt, standing by the bed they had shared, when Captain Rennie had finally dragged himself into it. With a wince—all his parts ached—Ross pulled back the coverlets, holding them high as an invitation.
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