The King in Yellow Chapter Fourteen
EVA After Maria’s revelation Katya had come to realise that many women in Waldenstein were desperately searching for the Yellow Sign and needed only to be gently guided along the right path. Her skill at psychological profiling and her personal charm meant that she was soon in discrete contact with potential victims, women whose words betrayed to the discerning eye a wild craving for the ultimate. An exchange of messages with Eva, a humanities student at the Institute, prompted Katya to set herself up as a therapist. And so, she began to draw her prospects into the web. Katya ushered Eva into the oak-panelled consulting room she now rented in an elegant inter-war building near the Old City – it was far too expensive, but she was happy to use up her savings. Taking the …