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etters. It was empty. The lino extended past the stairs to a
door with a frosted-glass window which probably opened onto the kitchen out the
back. The wallpaper was floral too―a posy of three roses alternating with a
snowflake design. From the threshold to the beginning of the stairs she counted
fifteen rosessixteen snowflakes. Inauspicious.
At lastshe heard a door opening upstairspossibly the one she had heard slammed
when she had knocked. Then the creak of a stairand feet wearing thick socks came
into viewand a flash of bare skinand a blue silk dressing gown that she recognized.
FinallyCecilia’s face tilting sideways as she leaned down to make out who was at
the front door and spare herself the trouble of descending furtherimproperly
dressed. It took her some moments to recognize her sister. She came down slowly
another three steps.
“Oh my God.”
She sat down and folded her arms.
Briony remained standing with one foot still on the garden paththe other on the
front step. A wireless in the landlady’s sitting room came onand the laughter of an
audience swelled as the valves warmed. There followed a comedian’s wheedling
monologuebroken at last by applauseand a jolly band striking up. Briony t [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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