"Annie laughed cheerily "Then I got stuck in a
snowbank - this was around midnight - but a sanding-crew from the Eustice
Public Works Department came along and helped me out.
That is crazy, he told himself, and then he heard thought he did - a little rustling sound, the sound of a womans starched skirt, perhaps, brushing lightly against the wall.
Geoffrey stood on the threshold of the housekeepers cottage in an odd slanting posture, as if his spine had been warped out of shape by long years carrying a peddlers sack.
Paul knew that even an exhaustive analysis would turn up precious few traces of blood - his car had spent most of the spring with snowmelt running through it at flood-speed.
That is crazy, he told himself, and then he heard thought he did - a little rustling sound, the sound of a womans starched skirt, perhaps, brushing lightly against the wall.
Geoffrey stood on the threshold of the housekeepers cottage in an odd slanting posture, as if his spine had been warped out of shape by long years carrying a peddlers sack.
Paul knew that even an exhaustive analysis would turn up precious few traces of blood - his car had spent most of the spring with snowmelt running through it at flood-speed.