Restless Nights

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After the Harley-Davidson had zoomed off down the lane Adam, in ancient jeans and sweatshirt, helped Gabriel gather up the cotton swabs and tidy up, carried the canvas down to the vault with reverent hands, then accompanied Gabriel on a round of locking up, and this time accepted her offer of tea.

‘I’m dry as a bone,’ he confessed, as they strolled up to the house together. ‘I’ve just got back from London.’

After a grand reconciliation with Della?

‘I went to an auction in the West End yesterday,’ he went on, ‘stayed the night with Leo, then on to one of those huge open air sales on the way back today.’

‘Dressed like that?’ said Gabriel, wondering about Leo.

‘Not at the auction. But this is my usual camouflage for general sales. A pair of sunnies and a scruffy old hat and I could be anybody. I don’t go bargain-hunting in my best bespoke suiting, Miss Brett.’

‘Were you successful?’ she asked, preceding him into the kitchen, which was miraculously tidy, due to one of the twice weekly visits of Miss Edith Prince, who had ‘obliged’ for Lottie Hayward in the past, and still continued to do so for Harry Brett, to Gabriel’s everlasting gratitude.