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"Where shall I put the pumpkins?"
Anne's voice sounded desperate. Her sister Cathy, standing by the living room windows with her arms folded, felt embarrassed by Anne's anxious blathering.
The unexpected guests had surprised and discomforted them both.
"Come and speak to your cousins!" Cissy, their mother, had ordered when the girls arrived on their weekly visit to her small cottage in Bexley. She blithely assumed that her daughters would want to, should, socialise with their relatives.
Uncle Stanley and his two sons sat together in the living room. Anne hovered in the doorway, gazing down the hall to the kitchen, where her mother had ...