Miss Mapp went to the garden-room and sat at her window.
“All so sudden,” she said to herself.
She sighed.
“I daresay there may have been much that was good in Captain Puffin,” she thought, “that we knew nothing about.”
She wore a wintry smile.
“Major Benjy will feel very lonely,” she said.
EPILOGUE
Miss Mapp went to the garden-room and sat at her window…