The Vault (2011)
“She wanted to stay with her cousins and behaved uncharacteristically (according to her mother) when told they would be leaving on Friday afternoon with Grandma and Grandad. There was some crying and stamping of feet.
‘Why not leave her here?’ Sylvia hugged her sister. ‘Would that be all right? Wouldn’t you mind?’ ‘Ask Gudrun. If she’s happy about it I shall be.’ So Mary was left behind with Amy and Anoushka in the care of their nanny who told them that it would be a pleasure as Mary was much le...ss naughty than the other two. ‘Grandad,’ said Amy, ‘do you think she’ll learn to be as naughty as us in just one week?’ Wexford said he wouldn’t be surprised. He drove Sylvia back to Great Thatto, reaching there at about five in the afternoon, and he and Dora went into the house with her. Dora was trying, and had been trying during the last part of the journey, to persuade her to come home with them and stay for the three nights before they returned to London.
‘I really do want to be on my own for a while,’ Sylvia insisted.MoreLess
‘Why not leave her here?’ Sylvia hugged her sister. ‘Would that be all right? Wouldn’t you mind?’ ‘Ask Gudrun. If she’s happy about it I shall be.’ So Mary was left behind with Amy and Anoushka in the care of their nanny who told them that it would be a pleasure as Mary was much le...ss naughty than the other two. ‘Grandad,’ said Amy, ‘do you think she’ll learn to be as naughty as us in just one week?’ Wexford said he wouldn’t be surprised. He drove Sylvia back to Great Thatto, reaching there at about five in the afternoon, and he and Dora went into the house with her. Dora was trying, and had been trying during the last part of the journey, to persuade her to come home with them and stay for the three nights before they returned to London.
‘I really do want to be on my own for a while,’ Sylvia insisted.MoreLess
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