![]() ![]() ![]() Tried to force tranquillizers down her throat to put her out of her torment. When the dreadful news had been brought to her, her initial reaction had been one of almost uncontrollable horror. And she was sitting there like that, straight-backed and very still, because she knew that if she did so much as move a muscle all her severely reined in self-control would gush screaming out of her. Every movement, each sound was reverberating shrilly inside her head. She appeared calm, outwardly composed now as she stared down at the pale carpet beneath her feet, seemingly oblivious to everyone else.īut she was far from oblivious. Sara was of the latter group, sitting alone on one of the soft-cushioned sofas. ![]() ![]() People were standing about in small clusters, some talking in low, worried voices, some breaking into soft bouts of weeping now and then, others comforting, others holding themselves apart from it all, standing or sitting with a fierce self-control about them which held them silent and still. Six hours since it happened.Īnd the tension in the formal drawing room was so fraught it picked at the flesh. ![]()
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