Francisco de Goya paintings
Filippino Lippi paintings
Francisco de Zurbaran paintings
. Married 1940 Clarence Albright, killed in action 1943. Leaving issue. Died 1956. I remember hearing about it—cancer, very young. That’s Charles, that issue.”
Basil gazed long at the photograph. The girl was plump and, it seemed, wriggling; annoyed rather than amused by the horseplay. “How one forgets. I suppose she was quite a friend of mine once.”
“No, no. She was just someone Margot produced for Peter.”
Basil’s imagination, once so fertile of mischief, lately so dormant, began now, in his hour of need, to quicken and stir.
“That photograph has given me an idea.”
“Basil, you’ve got that old villainous look. What are you up to?”
“Just an idea.”
“You’re not going to throw Barbara into the Serpentine.”
“Something not unlike it,” he said.
“Let us go and sit by the Serpentine,” said Basil to his daughter that afternoon
Saturday, 27 September 2008
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