“I thought it would all turn out to be my fault in the end,” Garland Holt said and they all looked up and laughed.
He had not been in the room when Karina had entered, but he had come in a few minutes later and had stood listening to what Felix was saying.
Karina had been aware of him the moment he appeared.
It was not that she was looking in his direction. She had just known that he was there and now she looked up at him, remembering his kindness as he had carried her up the stairs and set her down on the sofa in her bedroom.
“Garland! When did you get back?” Lady Holt said. “I did not expect you until dinnertime.”
“What did the insurance people say?” someone asked. “Are they going to pay up?”
Garland Holt walked into the circle round the table and, taking a sandwich off a plate, to
