Manor House 03 - For Whom Death Tolls - Plot & Excerpts
Much to her relief, only three customers remained in the grocer's shop when she arrived there. Unfortunately, one of them happened to be Rita Crumm. Percy greeted Elizabeth when she walked in, then went back to stacking cans of soup on the shelves. Flanked by two of her regular cronies, Marge and Florrie, Rita stood at the bacon counter and gave Elizabeth a derogatory smile. "Something wrong with Violet, your ladyship?" she inquired, her booming voice loud enough to be heard halfway down the street. Elizabeth frowned. "Violet? Not as far as I know. She seemed perfectly healthy when she served up breakfast this morning." Rita peered down her nose. She was an unusually tall woman, which gave her a definite advantage when attempting to look haughty. Since she deemed everyone in the village beneath her consideration, and that included the lady of the manor, she spent a good deal of her time attempting to look haughty. "Well," she said, with what Elizabeth considered a somewhat vulgar sniff, "I was just wondering, since this is the second time you've been in this shop and you don't usually do your own shopping." The envy in her voice was obvious.
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