A Sleeping Life

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Those have most power to hurt us, that we love; We lay our sleeping lives within their arms. O, thou hast raised up mischief to his height, And found one to outname thy other faults.

Beaumont and Fletcher: The Maid’s Tragedy

Home early for once. Maybe he’d start getting home early regularly now August had begun, the silly season. Criminals as well as the law-abiding take their holidays in August. As he turned the car into his own road, Wexford remembered his grandsons would be there. Good. It would be light for another three hours, and he’d take Robin and Ben down to the river. Robin was always on about the river because his mother had read The Wind in the Willows to him, and his great desire was to see a water rat swimming.

Sylvia’s car was parked outside the house. Odd, thought Wexford. He’d understood Dora was having the boys for the afternoon as well as the evening and that they’d be staying the night. As he edged his own car past his daughter’s into the drive, she came running out of the house with a screaming Ben in her arms and six-year-old Robin looking truculent at her heels. Robin rushed up to his grandfather.

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