Village Centenary by Miss Read

Author:Miss Read [Read, Miss]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I saw Amy next I repeated Mr Willet's remarks about viewing the dead.

'It's perfectly true,' she agreed. 'I can't say I've seen many dead people, but the two aunts whose bodies I saw simply will not come to life for me now. I always do my best not to see corpses for that reason. I like to remember my relatives as they were.'

'I'm remarkably short of close relatives,' I said, 'though I'm told I look more and more like my Aunt Bessie the older I grow. I'm sorry to say she was remarkably plain, but very determined.'

'I often wonder if we only see the good points of relatives in ourselves. You say your Aunt Bessie was determined. Maybe she was just pig-headed. I know I like to think I have my Aunt Maud's efficiency, but really I know she was plain bossy, and nearly drove poor Uncle Edward demented. She would tidy away his jigsaw puzzle and put it back in the box when he was only halfway through.'

'Strong grounds for divorce,' I said. 'Have some coffee?'

And we went into the kitchen together to make it.

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