5/11 So many people had lost patience and gone off with one shoe that fitted and one that was a little too big... Mrs.Stubbs prided herself on keeping something of everything. The two windows, arranged in the form of precarious pyramids, were crammed so tight, piled so high, that it seemed only a conjurer could prevent them from toppling over. In the left-hand corner of one window, glued to the pane by four gelatine lozenges, there was--and there had been from time immemorial--a notice. The bell jangled, the red serge curtains parted, and Mrs.Stubbs appeared. |