Chapter 48

Then she knew that she had said something silly, because for a second she had forgotten that Stephen was dead. He lay inside that room door they had closed. He lay white and quiet, and, she remembered, looking as if he were dreadfully tired. He was gone somewhere where he could not hear her, even if she did go in and try to tell him that she was sorry. In the last minute of his life, it had not been she but Lydia that he wanted. Lydia had broken his heart when he was a boy. And he had got over that, more or less, e…