Amber
“‘You didn’t have to clean out my trunk or spend three hours laundering my underthings.’‘Where is she now?’ Simon asked, still smirking. They were walking down to Mr McKenzie’s pharmacy on Shortland Street.‘Locked inside my room, and I hope that’s where she’ll stay until I get back.’Simon raised his eyebrows. ‘What about…you know?’‘I smuggled her out early this morning and discovered a very convenient heap of soil behind some bushes in Mrs Fleming’s backyard.’‘She’ll run away, you know.’‘Probabl...y,’ Kitty agreed gloomily. ‘I really don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep her out of Mrs Fleming’s sight. Apparently she hates cats.’‘Couldn’t you put her in a wicker basket and send her back to Paihia?’‘Mrs Fleming?’Simon gave Kitty a withering look. ‘No: Bodie. She survived in a trunk coming down to Auckland—surely she’ll manage going back the other way.’Kitty briefly considered the idea, then said, ‘No, I couldn’t do that to her.MoreLess
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