mmmm' kate did suddenly put her arms around herself. ` it's the shadows, i suppose'. `more tahn shadows' , thought minty.
They went into the church and it was cool and dark after the brightness outside. After looking round, they came out into the sun and looked across at a high gate. Behind it were the gardens of belton house. The air smelled hundreds of years old and minty suddenly felt that time was standing still. `if time has stopped,' she thought, `here among the gravestones is the right place. They're all dead and it doesn't matter if you died yesterday o r a hundred years ago. Dead is dead.'
Later, kate drove away in her litle car, then minty went to her room to listen to some music on her cassette player.