Company Calling
Mar. 16th, 2010 03:36 pm"We'd need a very good reason for me to go," Mary objected, although it was clear that she was becoming reconciled to the notion. "Visiting the Forresters won't take me farther than Camberwell."
"What about your great-aunt?" Myfanwy Morstan had appeared in our lives some months after our wedding, like a clap of distant thunder, and had declared herself a relation. "Wales is a long way from London."
Mary nodded agreement reluctantly, for her sudden relation was elderly, dictatorial, and inclined to raise a fuss. But then a smile lit up her face. "I know! I'll take Alfie with me!"
"What about your great-aunt?" Myfanwy Morstan had appeared in our lives some months after our wedding, like a clap of distant thunder, and had declared herself a relation. "Wales is a long way from London."
Mary nodded agreement reluctantly, for her sudden relation was elderly, dictatorial, and inclined to raise a fuss. But then a smile lit up her face. "I know! I'll take Alfie with me!"