in front of me, her eyes almost black in the low light, but shining, and said, "Why would I have wanted to bring you if they were here? I said something stupid like, 'Oh, I see, and tried to put my arms around her. She pushed me off, playfully. Later, she said. "Lets make this place warm first And for the next hour she was busy turning on the heaters in all the rooms while I made a wood fire in the living room. Then we pur the food we'd h rough in the fridge, and she made coffee. We sat n the sofa drinking it s te fire grew bigger. It was half past eleven. Let me show you round now,' she said, and took me on a tour of the house, There was a big living room, a kitchen lining room, and a modern bathroom downstairs, and three small bedrooms under the roof upstairs
Let me show you round now,' she said, and took me on a tour of the house, There was a big living room, a kitchen lining room, and a modern bathroom downstairs, and three small bedrooms under the roof upstairs This was my bedroom when I was a little girl, she said smallest upstairs room. "I used to lie here and watch the Sun come up over that mountain every morning in Summer and look, the sun's coming out now! Let me show you the garden.' We put our boots on because it was still very w on the round outside. We walked hand-in hand as she showed e where her grandparents had kept chickens, what vegetables her parents were growing this year, the apple tree where shed played as a girl What's down there: I asked. pointing to some stone dep going down to a brown door in the side of the house Oh, nothing now,' she said. "It was where they used to out wine and vegetables sometimes I was just turning away when I noticed the lock on the floor It was new