Page 92 - Demo

92She watched his head drop as he said, %u201cMy wife and our two children.%u201dKelly had an instinct. One quite rare. She always knew when a person lied to her. Luke just told her a truth.%u201cThey were not killed in battle like your husband. They died for no cause at all. They died as the result of a pandemic. Not influenza but something new that took time for our doctors and people to work out cure. It killed a lot of people.%u201d%u201cI%u2019m sorry. How long ago?%u201d%u201cSix years,%u201d he replied.She thought for a while before saying, %u201cI only have the one bedroom. I don%u2019t know where I can offer you to sleep.%u201d%u201cPlease don%u2019t worry. I can just lie on the floor in here,%u201d he said.%u201cI think you have been through a huge shock. The other room has the tail end of a fire going. I%u2019m can make you a makeshift bed on the floor in there and bring you a blanket from upstairs. The toilet and is out the back. I%u2019m afraid there%u2019s no room to wash in. I tend to use a bowl in here.%u201dHe drank the whisky and said, %u201cWhatever is best for you is good for me. I do not wish to intrude further on your generosity and kindness, Kelly.%u201dShe nodded, got up and left.He sipped whisky from his glass and thought everything over. It could be a few hours, a week, a year, before anyone would come to recover him. Maybe never if another machine could not be built and used on a purely useless recovery mission. It had never happened before.Even staying here in England for a few days would be difficult. This was a time of proving who you were. In times of war, a nation was concerned with enemy spies and without credentials, it was likely he The Time Traveller