Thursday, October 22, 2009

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- Every afternoon as they were coming from school the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden. . zoloft Absolutely right. And I'll come too ' she added with a slight note of heroism in her voice. 'No ' said Tommy. 'Why should you? She's not your aunt. No I'll go. ' 'Not at all ' said Mrs. Beresford. 'I like to suffer too. We'll suffer together. You won't enjoy it and I shan't enjoy it and I don't think for one moment that Aunt Ada will enjoy it. But I quite see it is one of those things that has got to be done. ' 'No I don't want you to go. After all the last time remember how frightfully rude she was to you?' 'Oh I didn't mind that ' said Tuppence. 'It's probably the only bit of the visit that the poor old girl enjoyed. I don't grudge it to her not for a moment. ' 'You've always been nice to her '! said Tommy 'even though you don't like her very much. ' 'Nobody could like Aunt Ada ' said Tuppence. 'If you ask me I don't think anyone ever has. ' 'One can't help feeling sorry for people when they get old ' said Tommy. 'I can ' said Tuppence. 'I haven't got as nice a nature as you have. ' 'Being a woman you're more ruthless ' said Tommy. 'I suppose that might be it. After all women haven't really got time to be anything but realistic over things. I mean I'm very sorry for people if they're old or sick or anything if they're nice people. But if they're not nice people well it's different you must admit. If you're pretty nasty when you're twenty and just as nasty when you're forty and nastier still when you're sixty and a perfect devil by the time you're eighty-well really I don't see why one should be particularly sorry for people just because they're old. You can't change yourself really. I know some absolute ducks who are seventy and eighty. Old Mrs. B! eauchamp and Mary Carr and the baker's grandmother dear old Mrs. Poplett who used to come in and clean for us. They were all dears and sweet and I'd do anything I could for them. ' 'All right all right ' said Tommy 'be realistic. But if you really want to be noble and come with me-' 'I want to come with you ' said Tuppence. 'After all I married you for better or for worse and Aunt Ada is decidedly the worse. So I shall go with you hand in hand. And we'll take her a bunch of flowers and a box of chocolates with soft centre and perhaps a magazine or two. You might write to Miss What's-her-name and say we're coming. ' 'One day next week? I could manage Tuesday ' said Tommy 'if that's all right for you. ' 'Tuesday it is ' said Tuppence. 'What's the name of that woman? I can't remember-the matron or the superintendent or whoever she is. Begins with a P. ' 'Miss Packard. ' 'That's right. ' 'Perhaps it'll be different this. daw5daw5757uocienyuh84drtgr545

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