Hanged for a Sheep
“TO 10:55 A.M.
Pam drank fruit juice and coffee and nibbled at toast and then, for several minutes, watched in admiration while Aunt Flora crunched contentedly through a much larger breakfast. Pam had tried to talk to Aunt Flora but Aunt Flora had been firm.
“Too unpleasant for meals, dearie,” Aunt Flora said, shifting an egg from platter to plate and regarding it with affection, her wig a little over one eye. “Taxes the digestion, you know. When you’re my age, you’ll not take any chances on you...r digestion.” Aunt Flora lifted the cover of a dish she had overlooked, beamed on the contents and said: “Sausage, eh? Something like.” She took sausages to bear company to the egg.
In its fashion, it was admirable. It was monumental. And Aunt, Flora, although she ate a great deal, ate very nicely. But it occurred to Pam that only Aunt Flora was really getting anywhere. Pam stood up, pushing back her chair from the table which Alice had set up under one of the windows in Aunt Flora’s room.MoreLess
Pam drank fruit juice and coffee and nibbled at toast and then, for several minutes, watched in admiration while Aunt Flora crunched contentedly through a much larger breakfast. Pam had tried to talk to Aunt Flora but Aunt Flora had been firm.
“Too unpleasant for meals, dearie,” Aunt Flora said, shifting an egg from platter to plate and regarding it with affection, her wig a little over one eye. “Taxes the digestion, you know. When you’re my age, you’ll not take any chances on you...r digestion.” Aunt Flora lifted the cover of a dish she had overlooked, beamed on the contents and said: “Sausage, eh? Something like.” She took sausages to bear company to the egg.
In its fashion, it was admirable. It was monumental. And Aunt, Flora, although she ate a great deal, ate very nicely. But it occurred to Pam that only Aunt Flora was really getting anywhere. Pam stood up, pushing back her chair from the table which Alice had set up under one of the windows in Aunt Flora’s room.MoreLess
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