Memories of the Storm
“Apart from talking to him at length about her arrival at Bridge House there had been no other opportunity to describe those later events, the memory of which still filled her with an instinctive horror. It seemed odd to her that Hester could talk calmly about that period of time without thinking of its culmination: the fight in the drawing-room, Edward knocked backwards into the river and her father fleeing with her back to London.
She was certain that Hester had not yet told Jonah the full sto...ry and she was interested now to find out exactly how much Hester would tell and how she would explain Edward's death to Jonah. Of course, she didn't know that there had been a witness that terrible evening but, even so, Hester was clearly more than ready to talk about the past.
This was so extraordinary that, if those blows and cries had not been etched so clearly on her own memory, Lucy wondered if she might now begin to believe that the whole thing had been the figment of one of her nightmares.MoreLess
She was certain that Hester had not yet told Jonah the full sto...ry and she was interested now to find out exactly how much Hester would tell and how she would explain Edward's death to Jonah. Of course, she didn't know that there had been a witness that terrible evening but, even so, Hester was clearly more than ready to talk about the past.
This was so extraordinary that, if those blows and cries had not been etched so clearly on her own memory, Lucy wondered if she might now begin to believe that the whole thing had been the figment of one of her nightmares.MoreLess
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