She’d been talking since she’d sat down, and Jenny listening, wide eyed. ‘I don’t think either of them saw me. I hope they didn’t. I was standing well back with Reg. But, my God, you should have seen the way Lorna looked at Amber. She’d been hanging on to her arm, and when she realised who she was hanging on to, she gave Amber an almighty shove. She would have gone down if not for Alma Duckworth. She caught her, then Lorna gave her a look that should have smote her dead on the spot.’ They were sampling the morning tea menu at Woody Creek’s new tea room – three tables and twelve chairs set up beneath the veranda of Blunt’s drapery store. Two years ago, Miss Blunt had sold her business to John and Pauline Taylor, a city couple who, since N. and B. Wallis had moved into Charlie’s, had become disillusioned by drapery and were in the process of diversifying. Enough of the locals, loyal to Miss Blunt, had paid her exorbitant prices but didn’t feel the same loyalty towards the Taylors, not when they could buy similar items for a third of the price at Charlie’s.
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