Carola Dunn
“It was a pleasant day, with a balmy breeze blowing and high wisps of mare’s tail lending interest to an otherwise azure sky. Having completed their shopping, they sent John Applejohn home with their purchases in the gig and proposed to walk back after their visit. Even Mrs Sutton, to whom exercise was usually anathema, declared that the weather was too fine to waste.
The Weird Sisters, as Angel had christened them in an unexpected burst of erudition, lived in the end cottage of a row. It was sl...ightly larger than its neighbours and this, together with its immaculate garden and genteel inhabitants, lent it a certain status. Tall, thin Miss Swenster, an aspiring poet reputed to have “a way with words,” had named it Rose End, and short, plump Miss Weir never tired of pointing out the clever pun as she showed visitors around her rose garden.
When the Suttons and Angel arrived, she was busy clipping deadheads off the bushes.
“Oh, dear!” she exclaimed, bustling up to them. “Is it three o’clock already?MoreLess
The Weird Sisters, as Angel had christened them in an unexpected burst of erudition, lived in the end cottage of a row. It was sl...ightly larger than its neighbours and this, together with its immaculate garden and genteel inhabitants, lent it a certain status. Tall, thin Miss Swenster, an aspiring poet reputed to have “a way with words,” had named it Rose End, and short, plump Miss Weir never tired of pointing out the clever pun as she showed visitors around her rose garden.
When the Suttons and Angel arrived, she was busy clipping deadheads off the bushes.
“Oh, dear!” she exclaimed, bustling up to them. “Is it three o’clock already?MoreLess
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