Yes, yes, indeed; exactly my thoughts (but better put): every time I read this chapter I go "Ha! Serves you right." (On Ginty getting the natural consequence of absenting herself from home re Patrick.)
I also think Mr Merrick is at his very best at breakfast and later running her her home.
If it takes "the landrover barely ten minutes to gulp the long, straight lane" that would be a fair hike on foot wouldn't it? "Gulping" to me implying speed, and "long, straight" lane implying that the road doesn't take a much more circuitous route than they can across fields/downs?
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Re: Treating Nicola shabbily (P Merrick) and well (A Merrick)
Date: 2015-02-18 07:41 am (UTC)I also think Mr Merrick is at his very best at breakfast and later running her her home.
If it takes "the landrover barely ten minutes to gulp the long, straight lane" that would be a fair hike on foot wouldn't it? "Gulping" to me implying speed, and "long, straight" lane implying that the road doesn't take a much more circuitous route than they can across fields/downs?
PS Do crows fly in straight lines?