“It’s late. We’d better go home.”
“Right you are,” she said. They stood for another moment or two beside the grave, strewn with wild-flowers below its modest cross, in the little mountain cemetery; the light had faded now from the great ridge, the snow gleamed silvery in the dusk under the first faint stars which pricked the tender blue of the sky.
“Poor Raquel! Poor Juanito!” she said softly. “Come on, ames.”
They left the cemetery and went down the hill together.
THE END
A Note on the Author
Ann Bridge was born in 1889 in Hertfordshire. Bridge’s novels concern her experiences of the British Foreign Office community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband; her works combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire.
Bridge went on to write novels based around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centred on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well as writing travel books and family memoirs. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research. Ann Bridge died in 1974.
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