CHAPTER SIX“Thank goodness for you,” John said sombrely as they turned back into the house. “If you hadn’t come in when you did –” He shuddered. “Rena I hardly recognised you, talking in that half witted fashion.”
“But you understood what I was saying?”
“Yes. I would have been trapped. I can see it now, but then everything was strangely foggy. I don’t understand it.”
“He was weaving wicked spells around you,” said Rena.
“That was exactly how it felt. All the time he was talking I knew there was something wrong, but I couldn’t see what it was because my mind seemed to be full of cobwebs. It was as though he had mesmerised me. But then you came in and blew the cobwebs away.”
He grinned. “You were brilliant. You sounded like the silliest woman in the world, not at all like my Rena.”
She
