the house was very still
.in the little room over the porch
the lady in Black sat alone. near her,a child's white dress lay across a chair on the floor at her feet lay a tiny pair of everywhere was silence ---the strange that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking
the clock stood on the shelf near the end of the bed
the lady in Black looked at it
she remembered the wave og anger that had come over her when she had reached out her hand and silenced the clock that night three months before