Fugitive Wife

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Author: Sara Craven
her trembling mouth.

CHAPTER TWO
    SHE cried for some time, sitting hunched in her high-backed chair, her hands pressed to her face. She was crying primarily, she knew, because she was tired and emotionaly confused, but some of her tears were for the hopeful, vulnerable child who had thought al she
    needed to do was stretch out her hand for what she wanted.

    She could even smile at the innocent arrogance which had taken her straight to the editor of one of Fleet Street’s leading dailies to ask for a job.

    Looking back, she had to admit that Hal Mackenzie had let her down lightly. He had listened quite seriously to her stumbling exposition of why she thought a career in journalism would suit her, and had even made a few notes on the pad in front of him as she talked. He had asked courteously what her shorthand speed was, and had made no comment when she confessed she had never done any. He had lifted a
    number of closely printed sheets from his in-tray and handed them to her, asking her to go into his secretary’s office next door and produce a news-story from the handout, no more than six paragraphs long.

    Briony’s heart sank as she sat before the gleaming electric typewriter and read the mass of words and statistics the handout contained. She was miserably conscious as she handed her finished story to Hal Mackenzie that it would fal far short of the standard required, and saw his brows rise slightly as he read it through.

    He put it down on his desk, removed the heavy horn-rimmed glasses he wore and Wiped them carefuly on a spotless white handkerchief
    while an unnerving silence lengthened.

    He said at last, ‘Miss Trevor, I’ve a friend in the Midlands who runs a smal group of weekly papers. It’s a good training ground, and if I recommended you to him he would give you a chance.’

    Briony said, ‘But I thought .. .’ and paused.

    Hal Mackenzie said drily, ‘You hoped your relationship with the Chairman would open doors for you at U.P.G. Wel, I’m afraid not, even if you’d been incredibly .’ talented, which you’re not. But you could probably learn to be reasonably competent in time, with a sound provincial training behind you. Wel, shal I write to my friend on your behalf?’ He waited, watching as the embarrassed flush deepened in her cheeks, then sighed. ‘Miss Trevor, I’m old enough to be your father, so may I give you some sound advice? Don’t read too much into a few moonlight kisses.’

    Briony said lamely, ‘I don’t know what you mean.’

    ‘No?’ His,brows rose. ‘I saw Logan folow you, you know. Fortunately your father didn’t. He’d already made his views on what had
    happened earlier quite clear.’

    ‘Mr Mackenzie.’ Briony made a belated grab for the remnants of her poise, ‘it realy isn’t what you think .. .’

    ‘Isn’t it?’ His tone was sceptical. ‘You’re a very lovely girl, Miss Trevor. Believe me, I’m not trying to censure either Logan or yourself.
    Good God, ‘if I was twenty years younger, I’d probably have tried to beat him to it, no matter who or what your father was. Does he
    know you’ve come here to ask for a job, incidentaly?’

    Briony bit her lip. ‘We’ve―discussed it, naturaly .. .’

    ‘In other words, no.’ Mackenzie sighed again. ‘It won’t do, Miss Trevor. I can’t imagine Sir Charles tamely accepting a life in journalism for you. I shal speak frankly to you. He’s a good chairman, but his heart is not in newspapers, the way your grandfather’s was. I often think your father would have been just as happy happier even―making cars, or sewing machines. Something that couldn’t talk back.
    Sometimes he acts as if journalism was a dirty word.’ He gave her a wry look.

    ‘And even if he didn’t, I wouldn’t consider passing over some of the good people who apply to me for work in order to give a start to an untrained girl with no particular flair. As it is, I’m afraid your father’s known views would have to
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