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Updated: August 17, 2026

So instead of letting her niece see how generous her sympathy was, she said, in rather a strident voice, the result of her suppressed feeling: "There is a good cup of coffee waiting for you in the small brown pot, and you'll find some egg-sandwiches on a plate on the high shelf above the tumbler-cupboard. Go and eat them at once, before a fresh lot of men come in."

Norma Lorimer - There was a King in Egypt