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It was my turn to roll my eyes, and I returned. “I know that.”
One side of her lips curled.
“I think I like you,” she decided.
When I said nothing, she went on.
“There’s more going on in that house.”
“Tell me something I don’t know.”
“Okay then, the flute. You don’t know about the flute.”
I was confused. “The flute? The one in the Music Room?”
She nodded. “Tell Ian about it.”
“No, you tell me about it.”
“It has to be Ian.”
Whatever.
I wasn’t playing this game anymore, not even in my dreams.
But while I had her…
“Why’d you do it?” I pressed. “To Virginia. To Rose. You’re a sister. Why did you sleep with both their husbands right here, in this house?”
“Virginia didn’t care I fucked David. Virginia herself had no interest in fucking David and so, when she could avoid it, she didn’t. And William didn’t care about Rose’s feelings.”
“He should have. She might not have been the love of his life. But she was his wife.”
“Tell that to him.” She made a mock-horrified face. “Oh no! You can’t! He’s dead. Like me.”
“Stop it and tell me,” I demanded.
She suddenly looked forlorn. “I was in love with him, you know.”
“Which one?”
Now, she made a face of distaste. “Well, not David.”
“William?”
Back to the forlorn when she shared, “It wasn’t true. What I said. He did care about Rose. It hurt him every day, knowing she’d wake up to such pain, having to live in that house with her husband and the woman he loved.”
“So if you loved him, why did you make things worse for him and Rose? For Virginia?”
“The heart wants what the heart wants,” she said softly.
“And David?”
“A grave mistake. I thought William would wish to let her go. Force her to divorce him. I could make him forget Virginia. I could make it so he could leave that house. He could see his patients, and I’d see to paying our bills. Divorce wasn’t done in our time, not often, but he would have taken care of her. That was the man he was. She would have been seen to. And she’d have had a far better chance at finding someone to make her happy. But his pesky scruples were always at the fore.”
“Not enough he didn’t fuck around on his wife.”
“Darling,” she drawled, sweeping a be-ringed hand down her body, the diamonds on her wrist twinkling in light that came from nowhere. “Not many men could say no to me.”
