“Is it Mr. and Mrs. Owen? Mr. Fielding asked me to say he was sorry he had been obliged to go to town. He asked me to look out for you and give you the keys. When you have finished, will you please lock everything up just as it was and return me the keys. I live at the cottage down the road.”
When she had spoken she turned without waiting for a reply and went back as she had come with the same slow, measured step, with the same strange manner of being somehow apart and aloof and separate. In a way nothing could have been more commonplace and ordinary than this production by a neighbour of the keys of the house they had come to look at. None the less, both Bobby and Olive felt they had been through an experience beyond the ordinary, an experience fraught with meanings, implications, inferences that were beyond their apprehension.
Published by Dean Street Press 2016
Copyright © 1947 E.R. Punshon
Introduction Copyright © 2016 Curtis Evans
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First published in 1947 by Victor Gollancz
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