34/35 But I thought I'd save the rest for when you came. Miss Olga always likes my rhubarb wine." The rhubarb wine proved at least a welcome distraction, and under its genial influence Mrs.Briggs's spirits rose. She was quite cheery by the time her two visitors took their leave. They left her waving farewell from her doorstep, the patches of paste still upon her ruddy countenance, but with no other traces of her recent distress visible. "I want to go round to the Priory and see Cork and Pluto next. |