He had called her since she’d left on the pretext of talking about Sappho’s. She had listened and replied with what sounded like forced interest, but despite his cautious prompting, she had not said anything about Eugénie or how she was feeling.
Although he didn’t have any news to impart, during the day he couldn’t shake off the feeling that something was very wrong. He didn’t believe in pre-cognition or ‘gut feelings’, and he would have put it down to feeling unsettled by Delfi’s oscillating moods, but he needed to be sure that his sister was all right. Nikolas wished that he could talk about it with his parents and had come close despite Elektra swearing him to secrecy, but when he had visited them two days earlier, he had found the atmosphere between them so oppressive with its silence
