The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
The Three Ages of Woman
The Virgin and Child with St Anne
The Water lily Pond
Venus and Cupid
Having finished her purchases, Aunt Helen would thenproceed to lengthy inquiries about her chosen shop assistant'smother, wife, second boy and crippled sister-in-law. Having had a thoroughly pleasantmorning, Aunt Helen would say in the playful manner of those times "And how would a little girl feel about some luncheon? Whereupon they went upin the lift to the fourth floor and had luncheon which always finished with a strawberryice. After that, they bought half a pound of coffee chocolate creams and went to a matineein a four wheeler.
Of course, the Army & Navy Stores had had a goodmany face-lifts since those days. I fact, it was now quite unrecognisable from the oldtimes. It was gayer and much brighter. Miss Marple, though throwing a kindly and indulgentsmile at the past, did not object to the amenities of the present. There was still arestaurant, and there she repaired to order her lunch.
oil painting
As she was looking carefully down the menu anddeciding what to have, she looked across the room and her eyebrows went up a little. Howextraordinary coincidence was! Here was a woman she had never seen till the day before,though she had seen plenty of newspaper photographs of her – atrace meetings, in Bermuda, or standing by her own plane or car. Yesterday, for the firsttime, she had seen her in the flesh. And now, as was so often the case, there was
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