Lance faced his daughter rather doubtfully, and Tamsyn considered for a moment, and then said: ‘It’s going to be all right, Daddy.’
Her father stared at her anxiously. ‘What do you mean?’
‘I mean my being here—Joanna and me! It’s going to be all right. We—we understand one another now.’ She sighed. ‘And I’m sorry I was so anti-social last night.’
Lance twisted his lips. ‘It was understandable, I suppose.’
‘You mean—because Joanna’s pregnant?’
‘Yes.’ Her father turned away. ‘I realise it’s hard for you to—–’
‘Oh, please, Daddy!’ Tamsyn didn’t want to talk about it any more. ‘Let it go, for now. How do you like your coffee? Black or white?’
Lance regarded her for a long moment and then he nodded. ‘Very well, Tamsyn. We’ll leave it. And I like my coffee black, but sweet.’
Over the aromatic beverage they discussed the details of her flight and when the conversation came round to Hywel Benedict again, she asked: ‘Does—does Mr. Benedict have a farm or something?’
Lance stared at her in surprise. ‘Hywel? Heavens, no!’
Tamsyn tipped her head on one side. ‘Then what does he do?’
‘Didn’t he tell you?’
‘No.’
Her father shook his head. ‘Ah, well, no. I suppose he wouldn’t, at that. Hywel’s a writer, cariad. Quite well known, he is. But you wouldn’t know that, living in America.’
‘A writer!’
Tamsyn was stunned. She remembered with self-loathing the way she had gone on about the cultural advantages of living in the city and of how she had chided him about art and music and books, almost setting herself up as an authority on the subject. How ridiculous she must have sounded to a man who was a writer himself. Her cheeks burned with the memory of it all, but her father seemed not to notice.
‘Yes,’ he was saying now, ‘he’s become more reserved since Maureen left.’
Tamsyn’s head jerked up. ‘Maureen? Who’s Maureen?’
‘Why, Maureen Benedict, of course, bach,’ replied her father. ‘Hywel’s wife!’
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