Mary Cassatt painting
"We didn't want anything of that sort," said her stepmother hastily. "But of course - well, I expect I'm still feeling the worry now. I don't seem able to forget it. Those days of waiting, of - of - " she restrained herself; another moment and the word "starving" would have left her lips.
Mary Cassatt painting
"But everything's all right now," said Bunting eagerly, all right, thanks to Mr. Sleuth, that is."
"Yes," repeated his wife, in a low, strange tone of voice. "Yes, we're all right now, and as you say, Bunting, it's all along of Mr. Sleuth."
She walked across to a chair and sat down on it. "I'm just a little tottery still," she muttered.
Mary Cassatt painting
Monday, October 15, 2007
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