A Dream of Wessex
“So obsessed had she been with the short, fraught conversation in Paul’s office that she barely heard what John Eliot and Don Mander had been saying. Only at the end, when Eliot had been out of the room, had she realized that Mary and Colin had their own reasons for not wanting Paul in the projection.Then Paul came in, and the unseen threat that had been lurking outside became a visible antagonist, and thus less fearful.‘How do you do, Miss Stretton?’ he had said, for all the world as if they we...re total strangers ... and the menace he presented became containable. The introduction had been a time when he could have revealed that they knew each other, but he had let the chance slip by, and played a part instead.He had the trustees behind him; he didn’t have to force a confrontation with her to join the projection.She sat back in her armchair, trying to steady her breathing, and she watched Paul. She had had the strength once to defy him, and she must do it again.He was sitting forward, listening and talking to Mander and Eliot.MoreLess
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