The last thought got itself into words.
“There doesn’t seem to be anything to wait for.”
Eily made a rather indeterminate sound-a kind of murmur with a question in it. Then she said,
“John is in a terrible hurry.”
Jane said what she had said once before.
“He wants to look after you. You can’t stay here.”
Eily shuddered. She put out a hand, and Jane held it.
“Don’t you want to marry him?”
Eily didn’t answer that. She said,
“He says there’s room for Aunt Annie and she’ll be welcome.”
“He’s good. He’ll look after you, Eily.”
Eily drew a long sighing breath.
“I shall have to go to chapel twice on a Sunday.”
Patricia Wentworth
Born in Mussoorie, India, in 1878, Patricia Wentworth was the daughter of an English general. Educated in England, she returned to India, where she began to write and was first published. She married, but in 1906 was left a widow with four children, and returned again to England where she resumed her writing, this time to earn a living for herself and her family. She married again in 1920 and lived in Surrey until her death in 1961.
Miss Wentworth’s early works were mainly historical fiction, and her first mystery, published in 1923, was The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith. In 1928 she wrote The Case Is Closed and gave birth to her most enduring creation, Miss Maud Silver.
