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At about half-past eight, Alix and her husband were still in the lounge, her, wainting for Dick's arrive, and him, looking at her slightest actions.

And then she was sat, smiling at her husband, she just was look the clock and count the minutes which scroll until Mr Dick's Windyford's arrive.

"Are you ok ?" he asked, finding her strange

"Yes, everything alright"she answered

Just few minutes, she said herself looking regularly but quietly the pendulum. The hardest wasn't hope for, but keep her calm faced with Gerald or rather Charles, her husband.

Because, in order that her plan could be completely realized, she should not change the habits she had and definitely not be aroused the suspicion.

Five to nine was displayed by the pendulum. She just have to wait five more minutes she thought. Her heart speeded up more and more faster, her lips was dry but her habit didn't changed everything was happened in her mind. She had no expression whose let view her anxiety or her hope, she was waiting impatiently

"You can't wait Dick, right?"he askes

"Me ? To be honest, a little... I can't wait to see the veal cutlets he chose for me", she replied, so as to don't wake the suspicions.

When suddenly, someone knock to the door, finally, Dick came because he didn't understand anything she said.

"Come in, please. Thanks for coming" she declared, loudly.

"Thank you, with pleasure" he added.

Finding Alix so silent, he get it that something was unusual, but he did not change his habit neither. After a long moment of hesitation, he launch himself and say shyly : " I did not quiet understood your request ".

"My request, really easy... take a look", she announced, but keeping her one's cold.

Slowly, Alix risen, took a vase from the room, and launched it with all her strength on her husband and with the impetus of adrenaline, took Dick's hand and both run away as faster that they can, and she said she will explain everything on the road.

Thanks god, Dick kept his calm and run away with Alix. Later, they could denunce her husband to the police and he was arrested by them for everything he did.

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