Myra Carrol by Noel Streatfeild

Author:Noel Streatfeild
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2018-07-24T10:21:59+00:00

EPILOGUE

THE OFFICE was about to be locked for the night when the van driver returned. The fire had been allowed to go practically out, the office was icy and the smell of the moth preventative seemed to have grown stronger. Grey-hair had spent the afternoon guarding every word lest she should snap at Mid-brown. Mid-brown had spent the afternoon taking offence and saying nothing but looking a lot. The arrival of the van driver was a relief.

“Any luck with Mrs. Carrol?” Grey-hair asked.

“Any amount; the van’s full but there’s more to come; they’re moving.”

“Where to?”

“London. They’ve a house in Chelsea.”

Mid-mouse took her coat off a hanger behind the door.

“It all makes a great deal of work in wartime; I don’t think people should be allowed to move.”

The van driver winked at Grey-hair.

“You ought to live in Germany. You’d like to see verboten written on everything.” She turned to Grey-hair. “She’s a queer cuss, that Mrs. Carrol. The little girl, Nella, helped me get the stuff out of the barn, but I was brought in to have a cup of tea. Mrs. Carrol was burning a mass of letters and she looked hot and messed up for her, you know how soignée she always is. I thanked her awfully for the things and she didn’t answer at once, and then she said, ‘nothing to thank for. As a matter of fact I’m glad you made me go in there. I turned up a portrait and had a look at it.’ The child said, ‘What, that fat Angel?’ and Mrs. Carrol said, ‘no, of a woman.’ I said I hoped she’d found it was valuable and she said, no, that was what was such fun. She had thought it was valuable, but not at all. Quite worthless. And, what’s more, it was the portrait of an idiot. Now, don’t you think that was an odd thing to be bucked about?”

THE END

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