[The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tempting of Tavernake CHAPTER XXIV 26/32
You don't even know where she is now, then ?" "I have no idea," Elizabeth declared. "She was with you for long in Cornwall ?" he asked. Elizabeth toyed with her wineglass for a minute. "She was there about a month," she admitted. "And she didn't approve of the way you and Wenham behaved ?" he demanded. "Apparently not.
She left us, anyway.
She didn't understand Wenham in the least.
I shouldn't be surprised," Elizabeth went on, "to hear that she was a hospital nurse, or learning typing, or a clerk in an office. She was a young woman of gloomy ideas, although she was my sister." He came a little closer towards her. "Elizabeth," he said, "we will not talk any more about Beatrice.
We will not talk any more about anything except our two selves." "Are you really glad to see me again, Jerry ?" she asked softly. "You must know it, dear," he whispered.
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