Finding Anabelle Glass: Part II

House Martin Book 1, Page 12.

The twelfth page of Heston’s singular used house martin notebook contained the following:

A description of Anabelle Glass:

1. She has shoulder-length black hair. Her hair is almost straight. Sometimes it looks glossy, sometimes it looks greasy.

2. She wears turtleneck jumpers almost exclusively.

3. Her favourite turtleneck jumper is a dark green colour, there is a rip in it at the back.

4. She has a red scarf.

5. She has a black leather jacket (Question: real or fake leather? Does Anabelle Glass care about the leather trade?)

6. She wears jeans. I have never seen her wear a dress or a skirt.

7. I have never seen her wear a hat.

8. She bites her nails.

The rest of the notebook page was empty. Sometimes, Heston flicked to that page and read its contents, memorising the already-memorised details of the woman across the hall. Other times, when he had the notebook in his hands, he avoided it with single-mindedness, not wanting to think about the fact that he would never meet the woman he’d so painstakingly brought to life on his pages.