A Countess By Christmas
“But she must have done, because the fire had gone out and the insides of the lead paned windows were thick with frost feathers.
She got up, wrapped herself in her warmest shawl, raked out the grate and, discovering a few embers still glowing gently, coaxed them into life with some fresh kindling. Then she looked around for the means to wash the soot and ash from her fingers. There was no dressing room adjoining their tiny room, but there was a screen behind which stood a washstand containing a ...pitcher of ice-cold water and a basin.
Washing in that water certainly woke her up completely!
She did not want her aunt to suffer the same early-morning shock, though, so, having made sure the coals were beginning to burn nicely, she put the fire guard in place and nipped down to the kitchens to fetch a can of hot water.
By the time she returned she was pleased to find that the little room had reached a temperature at which her aunt might get out of bed.
‘You had better make the most of this while the water is still warm,’ she told her sleepy aunt.MoreLess
She got up, wrapped herself in her warmest shawl, raked out the grate and, discovering a few embers still glowing gently, coaxed them into life with some fresh kindling. Then she looked around for the means to wash the soot and ash from her fingers. There was no dressing room adjoining their tiny room, but there was a screen behind which stood a washstand containing a ...pitcher of ice-cold water and a basin.
Washing in that water certainly woke her up completely!
She did not want her aunt to suffer the same early-morning shock, though, so, having made sure the coals were beginning to burn nicely, she put the fire guard in place and nipped down to the kitchens to fetch a can of hot water.
By the time she returned she was pleased to find that the little room had reached a temperature at which her aunt might get out of bed.
‘You had better make the most of this while the water is still warm,’ she told her sleepy aunt.MoreLess
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