CHAPTER 11With one day remaining of the school term, Karla arrived home an hour earlier than normal for there was little to do back at the hall. As usual, she walked the few hundred metres home across the paddocks. The hall property led to a small reserve of trees and onto the Top Plateau Station home paddock. Their house was on the other side out of sight behind a tall hedge. Half way along, a small pedestrian gate filled a gap in the hedge.
She was about to walk through it onto the back lawn when she heard Ryan's quiet but angry voice interjected by an almost screaming female voice; one that was completely unknown to her.
Karla stopped by the gate and knew she had not been seen when Ryan spoke again "You've got it wrong Trish," he said. "Karla is not like that!"
Trish? That was his si
