Chapter 30“She’s sleeping,” Lucy said to Walter as she joined him in the kitchen an hour or so later.
Walter nodded. “She’ll be out all night with the dose I gave her,” he said.
“I thought it was aspirin?”
Walter shook his head. “And the rest,” he said. “I put some laudanum in the water she washed the aspirin down with. It’s the only thing that gives her any relief. These don’t happen often, but when they do…” He trailed off.
Lucy sat down heavily at the table.
Walter looked at her reassuringly. “She has three or four in a year. And she’ll be a bit pale and quiet tomorrow and back to normal the next day,” he said.
He poured a cup of tea and pushed it across the table to her.
“She’ll be fine, Lucy,” he said, sitting down opposite her.
He’d been making himself a sandwich, she saw, no
