The African Poison Murders (30 page)

She was looking bewildered, annoyed and exhausted at the same time; he had brought a slight flush to her cheeks with his words. He stepped forward quickly, and took both her hands in his own.

“We’re going to have fun together,” he promised.

“Whenever you say.” She drew back quickly, but there was no anger in her eyes.

“I don’t know,” she said. “It’s too soon. You must give me time.”

A flood of the kind of happiness that made him want to shout and sing threatened to sweep the last ofVachell’s sanity away. “All the time in the world,”

he said. “What’s time for? I’ve lived a thousand years in the last half hour. I could spend another thousand looking at you.”

She looked at him in silence, smiled and picked up her hat. A boy was crossing the lawn with news of lunch.

“Of course, you’re nuts,” she remarked. “But I guess even a tornado would be a distraction in the middle of an epidemic in which all one’s family was 312

dying of bubonic plague. You’ll stay and have some lunch?”

“I’d be glad to,” Vachell said.

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