Malory Towers Winter had set in early in Cornwall and sitting in the church froze Darrell to the bone. Darrell, Sally, Sally’s mother and father, and Sally’s little sister Daffy, were staying in Aunt Mary’s house. She found it rather creepy, and so did Sally. ‘Well, Sally,’ Darrell had overhead Sally’s mother say the night before the funeral, ‘where would you have us stay?’ That was the end of it. Daffy was eight now. She was a well-mannered but quiet girl, and Darrell never felt completely at ease with her. When Darrell had given her condolences to Daffy, who was a rather intelligent girl for her age, Daffy had been insolent and simply ignored what Darrell said. ‘Perhaps,’ Darrell had thought to herself later, when she was brushing her teeth and staring at herself in the glass, ‘I shouldn’t have mentioned it to Daffy.’ Darrell wondered if Daffy knew how Aunt Mary had died. No one had mentioned it in Darrell’s presence, and she wondere...
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