"There!" grunted Milly Masters, the house-keeper, throwing down her
glasses. She was stitching, too, in the small dark room that overlooked
the stable yard. The jersey, the rough woollen jersey, for her son, the
boy who cleaned the Church, was finished. "The end 'o that!" she
muttered. Then she heard the cart. Wheels ground on the cobbles. Up she
got. With her hands to her hair, her chestnut coloured hair,
Cheap Newports Cigarettes, she stood
in the yard, in the wind.
Miss Antonia drew the carving knife across the pheasant's breast firmly.
She cut two slices and laid them on a plate. Deftly the footman whipped
it from her, and old Miss Rashleigh raised her knife. Shots rang out in
the wood under the window.