Aunt Dimity And the Deep Blue Sea
Aunt Dimity And the Deep Blue Sea
“I squinted at the mullioned windows, peered muzzily at the massive fireplace, and gradually remembered where I was and how I’d come to be there.
A glance at the clock on the bedside table told me that it was seven o’clock. I stared drowsily at the raftered ceiling for a while, wondering what my neighbors in Finch were saying about the strangers who’d moved into my cottage. Devoted gossips one and all, the villagers were no doubt having a field day inventing stories to explain our departure. I t...ook some pride in knowing that we’d provided them with such a rich, ongoing source of entertainment. Compared to their inventions, the true story would probably fall flat.
Chuckling quietly, I placed Reginald on the bedside table and reached for Aunt Dimity’s journal, curious to find out what, if anything, she’d learned about Brother Cieran while I slept. I leaned back against a heap of pillows and opened the blue journal on my lap, but before I’d opened my mouth, Aunt Dimity’s fine, old-fashioned copperplate flew across the page.MoreLess
A glance at the clock on the bedside table told me that it was seven o’clock. I stared drowsily at the raftered ceiling for a while, wondering what my neighbors in Finch were saying about the strangers who’d moved into my cottage. Devoted gossips one and all, the villagers were no doubt having a field day inventing stories to explain our departure. I t...ook some pride in knowing that we’d provided them with such a rich, ongoing source of entertainment. Compared to their inventions, the true story would probably fall flat.
Chuckling quietly, I placed Reginald on the bedside table and reached for Aunt Dimity’s journal, curious to find out what, if anything, she’d learned about Brother Cieran while I slept. I leaned back against a heap of pillows and opened the blue journal on my lap, but before I’d opened my mouth, Aunt Dimity’s fine, old-fashioned copperplate flew across the page.MoreLess
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