标题: 《The Hollow 》作者：- Christie_ Agatha【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-12-24 09:01 标题: 《The Hollow 》作者：- Christie_ Agatha【EPUB】 The Hollow The Hollow The Hollow The Hollow Chapter 1 At 6:13 a.m. on a Friday morning Lucy Angkatell's big blue eyes opened upon another day, and as always, she was at once wide awake and began immediately to deal with the problems conjured up by her incredibly active mind. Feeling urgently the need of consultation and conversation, and selecting for the purpose her young cousin Midge Hardcastle, who had arrived at The Hollow the night before, Lady Angkatell slipped quickly out of bed, threw a negligee round her still graceful shoulders, and went along the passage to Midge's room. Since she was a woman of disconcertingly rapid thought processes, Lady Angkatell, as was her invariable custom, commenced the conversation in her own mind, supplying Midge's answers out of her own fertile imagination. The conversation was in full swing when Lady Angkatell flung open Midge's door. “- And so, darling, you really must agree that the weekend is going to present difficulties!” “Eh? Hwah?” Midge grunted inarticulately, aroused thus abruptly from a satisfying and deep sleep. Lady Angkatell crossed to the window, opening the shutters and jerking up the blind with a brisk movement, letting in the pale light of a September dawn. “Birds!” she observed, peering with kindly pleasure through the pane. “So sweet.” “What?” “Well at any rate, the weather isn't going to present difficulties. It looks as though it had set in fine. That's something. Because if a lot of discordant personalities are boxed up indoors, I'm sure you will agree with me that it makes it ten times worse. Round games perhaps, and that would be like last year when I shall never forgive myself about poor Gerda. I said to Henry afterwards it was most thoughtless of me - and one has to have her, of course, because it would be so rude to ask John without her, but it really does make things difficult - and the worst of it is that she is so nice - really it seems odd sometimes that anyone so nice as Gerda is should be so devoid of any kind of intelligence, and if that is what they mean by the law of compensation I don't really think it is at all fair.” “What are you talking about, Lucy?” “The weekend, darling. The