Death At the Opera (2010)
“A telegram was handed in, which ran thus: “Beware helm widower suspicious circumstances asked school.”
Several years of coping with arithmetical problems had sharpened Miss Ferris’s wits, and a message which, to less well-trained senses, might have suggested the babblings of lunacy, resolved itself for her into the following perturbing set of ideas: “Beware of the Mr. Helm from whose table you asked to be moved at the commencement of your summer holiday at your aunt’s boarding-house. He is undo...ubtedly an imitator, if not an actual reincarnation, of George Joseph Smith, who was charged in the year 1915 for drowning three brides in the bath, and he has asked for the address of your school.”
The telegram bore her aunt’s surname. Miss Ferris, who had lived the narrowest, safest and most sheltered of lives, was seriously upset by the message. Advice she felt she must have, and therefore five pairs of interested and four pair of anxious eyes noted that at recess, instead of taking coffee and biscuits in the staff-room, according to the time-honoured and civilized custom of the staff, she repaired to the Headmaster’s study.MoreLess
Several years of coping with arithmetical problems had sharpened Miss Ferris’s wits, and a message which, to less well-trained senses, might have suggested the babblings of lunacy, resolved itself for her into the following perturbing set of ideas: “Beware of the Mr. Helm from whose table you asked to be moved at the commencement of your summer holiday at your aunt’s boarding-house. He is undo...ubtedly an imitator, if not an actual reincarnation, of George Joseph Smith, who was charged in the year 1915 for drowning three brides in the bath, and he has asked for the address of your school.”
The telegram bore her aunt’s surname. Miss Ferris, who had lived the narrowest, safest and most sheltered of lives, was seriously upset by the message. Advice she felt she must have, and therefore five pairs of interested and four pair of anxious eyes noted that at recess, instead of taking coffee and biscuits in the staff-room, according to the time-honoured and civilized custom of the staff, she repaired to the Headmaster’s study.MoreLess
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