24/79 Judged by what Captain Sam had told him, the Armstrong home at Middleford should have been a pleasant one. "She was sort of talking to herself when she said it. She was writing a letter--to Uncle Charlie, I think it was--and I and Petunia asked her if she liked it here and she sort of looked at me without looking, same as you do sometimes, Mr.Winslow, when you're thinking of something else, and then she said that about the catty--no, the purr-gatory. And when I asked her what purr-gatory meant she said, 'Never mind,' and. |