by Alan Hunter
Of Somerhayes, Gently saw no more before he returned to town. He did not attend the inquest, which dealt merely with identification, and Sir Daynes, who did, reported that Somerhayes ‘hadn’t got a blasted word for him, not for anyone else as far as he could see’.
‘Poor man,’ commented Lady Broke, whose maternal interest in Somerhayes never flagged. ‘It’s been a shocking time for him, Daynes, truly shocking. I shudder to think of what he must have been through. If I were him I would take a long, long holiday in — you know, the West Indies or somewhere like that. And I would take Janice Page with me. I think it’s ridiculous how he doesn’t marry her!’
Sir Daynes pooh-poohed, but his prescient lady maintained her opinion; and whether the idea was communicated to Somerhayes supersensorily or by more material media, he did, in fact, very shortly depart with Janice for the sunny shores of Jamaica. Johnson, who proved quite capable of the task, was left to manage the tapestry workshop.
‘I liked the inspector,’ said Gertrude Winfarthing dreamily, as, with the housemaid, she stripped the now-vacant bed. ‘Give me a ten-bob note he did, which is more than half of them do. An’ he got a twinkle in his eye… Did you notice his twinkle, Irene? I reckon a girl like me could do worse than marry a man like that, spite of his being fiftyish and always got a pipe in his mouth…’
And she kept her piece of mistletoe for quite a long time afterwards.
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