Slipknot
“For some unknown reason the alarm had failed to wake either herself, Agnetha or Sukey and the morning had begun with pandemonium, all of them skittering to their bathrooms, throwing on clothes and eating toast in the cars on the way to work and school. Bobby’s morning walk had been neglected; he was not a forgiving dog and glowered at her from the basket when she apologised and left his lead hanging on the back of the laundry door.Jericho was waiting for her in the hallway, his face grave and s...he felt her heart sink. He often had to impart bad news to her over the telephone but when he considered the news was particularly bad he took it upon himself to wait for a face to face encounter. And he always looked like this, mournful, lugubrious eyes, his mouth drooping down and his hair, which always reminded her of Dickens’s Scrooge – straggly and grey, looking even more so. So when she burst in, an apology ready on her lips, and saw he was standing in front of his desk (his particular position), with his face twisted into something more extreme than his habitual grave expression, she was alarmed and forewarned.‘Jericho?MoreLess
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