‘You dear,’ she said. ‘You’re trying to hush it all up for us.’ ‘My dear child!’ The old man appeared scandalised. ‘I’ve never heard such nonsense. There’s nothing to hush up. A perfectly normal death. I’m merely considering your father, as I keep on telling you. You young people are too eager to listen to the superstitious chatter of the country folk. There’s no such thing as a look of horror on a dead face. It’s death itself that is horrifying. A case of sudden end like this is always shocking. I’ll make you up a sedative, Penny. One of the men can come down for it. Take it three times a day
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