Corridor of Mirrors Page #5

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If think I'll leave the infernal

machine until the morning.

Of course. Goodnight Ed.

Goodnight.

Nice of you to have

looked in on us first.

I'll see you to the door.

I hope we see a lot of each other.

That would be lovely. Goodnight Owen.

Goodnight Mifanwy.

I want a word with you, young woman.

I'm very tired David. Can it wait?

No .. come here.

Nearer .. what's that great thing

you've got on around your neck?

Now David .. this is not the

quivering prisoner at the bar.

This is your spoiled beauty

of a daughter .. remember her?

Now stop being foolish.

I want to look at it .. here.

You weren't wearing this when

you went out this evening.

He .. came tonight.

Hmm.

This is a priceless piece

of Renaissance work.

You can't go accepting

valuable presents like this.

Who is this man anyway?

Oh, someone I met in

a nightclub weeks ago.

Your tie is crooked.

You ought to have got over it. Your

affairs don't usually last this long.

No .. this is something different.

I find him attractive

David .. madly attractive.

Don't ask me anymore .. this is

my own secret .. for the moment.

It only matters to be a chosen companion

of the most extraordinary man in London.

Possibly in the whole world.

Alright Mifanwy, you

shall keep your secret.

But you won't keep this .. you

shall take this back tomorrow.

To your .. uh .. your most extraordinary

man in the whole of London.

Paul?

Paul?

Paul.

Stop joking.

Where are you? .. Paul?

Very beautiful .. but this

is hardly in character.

Now we must do the finishing touches.

Jewelry is missing, so is the headdress.

How wonderful.

Do you mind me trying on this costume?

I've been collecting them over a period

of years .. just for this occasion.

Oh .. surprising how it fits me.

It isn't surprising at all.

In future, you'll find all the matching

jewelry in the opposite cupboards.

Is that right?

I hope so.

You know Paul .. since the

moment I entered this house.

I can't help feeling that I've left the

other Mifanwy back at the nightclub.

This one is someone .. entirely different.

You are someone entirely different.

"Yes .. I was becoming

someone entirely different."

"I was beginning to think like him,

speak like him .. feel like him."

"Paul was turning me into

someone I couldn't understand."

"The weeks passed. He took

up all my time and energy."

"And yet, there was never any undue

pressure in Paul's hold over me."

"All day long, there was the sensation

of being inside a different world."

"It was as if I wanted to

get away .. and couldn't."

"Even in my sleep, he would be

there, in the corridor of mirrors."

"Watching me, dressing up for him."

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