“Funny, isn’t it,” she said, “how the law can have a soft spot like that? No, someone had seen her in the village at the time Robin went missing, so she wasn’t really a suspect. It was decided that because of her. . . because she was . . . well, not to put too fine a point on it, that Meg was best left out of things entirely, and that’s how it was done.” “So it was Dieter who found the body then.” “Yes. He told me about it that same evening. He was still in shock – hardly making sense: all about how he had come racing down from Gibbet Wood, yelling himself hoarse . . . leaping fences, sliding in the mud . . . running into the yard, looking up at the empty windows. Like dead eyes, they were, he kept saying, like the windows of the Brontes’ parsonage. But as I said, poor Dieter was in shock. He didn’t know what he was saying.”
*** ‘Left’ is a complement, and ‘racing’ is an adjunct, aren’t they?
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