Wexford 19 - The Babes In The Woods - Plot & Excerpts
These threaded their way through properties he had visited owned by the National Trust, great houses such as Chatsworth and Blenheim he had always wanted to see but never had the time for and a stretch of Scottish moorland where a distant cousin, long-dead, had been shot in the leg while injudiciously walking there during a shoot. His wife, not Vine, finally cut him short with a, ‘That’s very interesting, darling, but not quite what the sergeant wants just at present.’ ‘This moorland,’ said Vine, ‘where your cousin was, was it family-owned? I mean, did someone he knew or was related to own it?’ ‘Good heavens, no,’ said Effie Troy, who had evidently heard the story before, perhaps many times before. ‘The Troys aren’t in that sort of league. This cousin came from Morecambe and, anyway, it was in nineteen twenty-six.’ Vine wasn’t surprised. ‘So Joanna -, he had graduated to calling her Joanna since no one seemed to object ‘- didn’t know anyone who owned a large country property?’ ‘Not to say “know”.
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