[The Red Planet by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Planet CHAPTER V 26/40
When he got home Mrs.Marigold, as like as not, would give him plain slabs of bread buttered by her economical self.
I knew my Marigold.
He gave a vicious and ineffectual turn or two and then stuck his head in the bonnet. The situation was saved by the appearance from the garden of Mrs.Boyce herself, a handsome, erect, elegantly dressed old lady in the late sixties, pink and white like a Dresden figure and in her usual condition of resplendent health.
She held out her hand. "I couldn't let you go without telling you that Leonard is back.
I don't want the whole town to know.
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