Sunday, 12 April 2009

Lollipopping


Usually Lucy didn't take the road that only let to an old neglected house, even if the road itself was lonely and lovely. But a strange sadness made it look like a scenario.
They said the house belonged once to Primula Loinbury. They said she lived there with Mrs. Rumbelow. There's still a pretty greenhouse in the back yard, even though with smashed windows. Some said too there was something odd about Miss Loinbury and Mrs. Rumbelow. Nobody could keep quiet about them, that's true.
Old Jane Lester, who now spent her days watching the world through the window sitting in her wheel chair, was once their maid. She was used to seeing Miss Loinbury having breakfast with peacock feathers in her hair or dancing naked but for pearls around her neck on the heavy hot days of summer. Mrs. Rumbelow was the one for discretion, sort of. The town still remembers when she went to the church dressed in a white sheet. Mrs. Rumbelow explained to Jane that tunics were a very acceptable garment and to the vicar's wife she added that the drapée was not for everybody.
Old Jane cried when the tragedy happened.
The people only remember the gossip.
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