Comes a Stranger (2015)
“Somerville’s house so early next morning that Miss Perkins was not yet visible.
Mrs. Somerville, however, was bustling about in a very excited state, divided between the necessary morning tasks and sudden darts to the door in the hope that someone would appear who really knew what had actually happened the night before. Early as it was, rumours were already abroad, the only point on which they agreed being that a dead body had been found in the sunk lane through the wood. Mrs. Somerville’s ...interest was the greater in that she herself had been out the night before and had actually passed by the spot where the lane entered the wood.
“So it might have been me as like as not,” she pointed out, a trifle tremulously, “and never shall I get over it, never.”
“What time was this?” Bobby asked, wondering if she, too, had heard the shots.
But it appeared that she had reached home almost exactly at ten.MoreLess
Mrs. Somerville, however, was bustling about in a very excited state, divided between the necessary morning tasks and sudden darts to the door in the hope that someone would appear who really knew what had actually happened the night before. Early as it was, rumours were already abroad, the only point on which they agreed being that a dead body had been found in the sunk lane through the wood. Mrs. Somerville’s ...interest was the greater in that she herself had been out the night before and had actually passed by the spot where the lane entered the wood.
“So it might have been me as like as not,” she pointed out, a trifle tremulously, “and never shall I get over it, never.”
“What time was this?” Bobby asked, wondering if she, too, had heard the shots.
But it appeared that she had reached home almost exactly at ten.MoreLess
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