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Updated: May 12, 2025
She hugged the hot-water-jug still closer, and shivered expressively. "I shall be obliged to raid the kitchen there's nothing else for it!" "You daren't!" Margot laughed derisively, but her answer was checked by the sudden appearance of a man's figure pacing slowly past the window.
Mrs McNab planted the scones in the centre of the table, and gathered together the soiled plates with a wooden stolidity. To all appearances she might not have heard a word that had been said. Margot seized the hot-water-jug, and shivered ostentatiously, trusting to pity to prevail where guile had failed; and sure enough the pale blue eye turned on her like a flash of steel.
Scones and toast, eggs and strawberry-jam, besides the solid flank of ham, and, better than all, plenty of delicious cream and fresh butter. Margot poured out tea for herself and Ron, and, taking the hot-water-jug on her knee, warmed her numbed hands on it as she ate.
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