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She looked out above the mirror onto the sea below. This place was really rather fun. Or it could be fun. All those beaches and coves and queer little paths. Lots to explore. And places where one could go off by oneself and muck about. There were caves, too, so the Cowan boys had told her.
Linda thought: “If only Arlena would go away, I could enjoy myself.”
Her mind went back to the evening of their arrival. It had been exciting coming coming from the mainland. The tide had been up over the causeway. They had come in a boat. The hotel had looked exciting, unusual. And then on the terrace a tall dark woman had jumped up and said:
“Why, Ke
And her father, looking frightfully surprised, had exclaimed:
“Rosamund!”
Linda considered Rosamund Darnley severely and critically in the ma
Father, too, had seemed pleased to see Miss Darnley. Fu
She thought: “I wonder what Father was like when he was my age…”
But that was too difficult. She gave it up.
An idea flashed across her mind. What fun it would have been if they’d come here and found Miss Darnley here – just she and Father. A vista opened out just for a minute. Father, boyish and laughing. Miss Darnley, herself – and all the fun one could have on the island – bathing – caves – The blackness shut down again.
Arlena. One couldn’t enjoy oneself with Arlena about. Why not? Well, she, Linda, couldn’t, anyway. You couldn’t be happy when there was a person there you – hated. Yes, hated. She hated Arlena.
Very slowly that black burning wave of hatred rose up again. Linda’s face went very white. Her lips parted a little. The pupils of her eyes contracted. And her fingers stiffened and clenched themselves…
Ke
She said: “Oh, it’s you. Ken.”
“Yes. I wondered if you were ready.”
“Just a minute.”
Ke
Turning around, he said: “Arlena?”
“Yes?”
“You’ve met Redfern before, I gather?”
Arlena said easily: “Oh, yes, darling. At a cocktail party somewhere. I thought he was rather a pet.”
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