When she did get in,Andrea could se

When she did get in,Andrea could see that she was not,in fact,so little. Broad and fat, the old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door,with her big bag, and when she had got in, she more than filled the seat next to Andrea. She wore a long, shabby old dress, and she had a yellow hat pulled down low over her eyes. Panting noisily from her effort, she pushed her big brown can vas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet, and said in a voice which was almost a whisper, '' thank you dearie I'm just going to Brockbourne''.