The Rose Garden (2012)
“In spite of his earlier vagueness, he must have known exactly where they were because it wasn’t long before he came back down and set a slightly grimy biscuit tin between us at the kitchen table.
‘There you are,’ he said. ‘My plunder.’ Susan gave it an experimental shake. ‘What’s in it?’ ‘Have a look and see.’ He put the kettle on to make the tea and watched with patience while we sorted through his ‘treasures’: small bits of polished glass and stone, a limpet shell, a tarnished metal button, t...he cork from a wine bottle, two shilling coins and a ha’penny, some woman’s earring with worn plastic pearls, the promised musket balls, and underneath all that a length of rusted metal so misshapen that it wasn’t recognizable as anything. Until Felicity reached out to pick it up and gently brushed the flakes away.
I stared then, as the cold chased up my spine.
Susan asked her friend, ‘What’s that?’ ‘Some kind of knife.’ She looked to Mark, who shrugged and said, ‘I think I found it in behind the barrels.MoreLess
‘There you are,’ he said. ‘My plunder.’ Susan gave it an experimental shake. ‘What’s in it?’ ‘Have a look and see.’ He put the kettle on to make the tea and watched with patience while we sorted through his ‘treasures’: small bits of polished glass and stone, a limpet shell, a tarnished metal button, t...he cork from a wine bottle, two shilling coins and a ha’penny, some woman’s earring with worn plastic pearls, the promised musket balls, and underneath all that a length of rusted metal so misshapen that it wasn’t recognizable as anything. Until Felicity reached out to pick it up and gently brushed the flakes away.
I stared then, as the cold chased up my spine.
Susan asked her friend, ‘What’s that?’ ‘Some kind of knife.’ She looked to Mark, who shrugged and said, ‘I think I found it in behind the barrels.MoreLess
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