Brannigan took him through the main hall and into his study.

And when Brannigan saw it he didn't think so either.

Brannigan's words of several days ago came back to her.

When it happened he was alone - so Brannigan said.

Brannigan noted that he had himself well in hand again.

Brannigan's last few words were like fire in his chest.

His look told Brannigan that only a closed door kept him from the one he really wanted.

Brannigan came out to meet him as he paid off the driver.

What was Brannigan thinking about in giving a woman like that a position of responsibility?

On the whole he thought that Brannigan was taking far too serious a view of the affair.

He wondered if Brannigan had a drugs problem at the school, but kept the thought to himself.

Brannigan grinned at her as they reached the second floor.

Brannigan wrote quickly, telling Jeremy where they were and the situation.

He took a chair from along the wall and put it roughly where Brannigan had been sitting.

The words were out before Brannigan could stop them.

"Brannigan did say you liked to make a grand entrance."

At this point Brannigan had looked away from him.

Brannigan's smile, though forced, came out with a little warmth.

Brannigan sat down on the bed and pushed the candle over to the edge of the table.

He didn't ask anything about the boys' responses and it was Brannigan who volunteered the information.

It had taken some time to find a horse she could purchase with the funds Brannigan gave her.

Brannigan acknowledged that Young's resignation comes during a "very difficult period for us".

The degree of his vulnerability depended on the boys and Brannigan himself.

And neither of your parents were there, Brannigan thought.

Brannigan took Tripp's body down to the basement, along with several other ones.