This Dark Endeavour (with Bonus Material) (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
I hadn’t planned to sleep but only to wait for the dawn, when I could check on Konrad. I leapt out of bed. It must have been close to noon. A servant had left water in a basin, removed my soaked and bloodied clothes, and laid out a fresh set for me. I hurriedly washed and dressed, then rushed down the corridor to Konrad’s bedchamber. The door was ajar, and when I slipped inside, I saw a room bright with sunshine, fragrant with the smell of fresh flowers and linens—and Konrad sitting up in bed, smiling and chatting with Mother and Elizabeth while eating some soup. At first they did not see me, and for a long moment I could only stare in delight and wonder. It had worked! It had not been in vain. “You’re better!” I cried. “Good morning, Victor,” my brother said. Elizabeth looked at me, beaming. “The fever is certainly gone,” said Mother. “He is still weak, but altogether much improved.” Any puzzlement or anger Mother might have felt to see us back at the chateau had clearly been obliterated by her happiness at Konrad’s recovery.
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