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Dangerous Echoes
5 – Polly
The firm commission from Miss Matthews meant a lot of
extra work for Clarrie during the three weeks before
Sarah’s theatre date, so she scarcely noticed how little the
idea of a night out appealed to her mother. Polly
endeavoured to ignore Sarah’s apathetic mood ... as if by
doing so it would go away. She even had a problem of her
own which might have distracted Sarah and tried to
broach the subject several times without success; she
could never get to the point before something interrupted
them.
Elaine, the wife of Polly’s nephew Dan, was concerned
about an elderly relative of hers. They both had a high
regard for Sarah’s unusual powers; she had helped them
through an unusual and harrowing problem last year,
when they were newly married. Dan asked Polly if she
would discuss it with Sarah or Clarinda. Polly was not at
all sure what Dan expected either of them to do about it,
but had promised to do her best.
Elaine’s Aunt Margaret had apparently come under the
influence of a woman who claimed to be a medium. Dan
said that before they knew Sarah they would have had
forty fits, but now they appreciated that the woman, Irma
Rigby, might be above reproach. They wouldn’t care if they
could be sure the woman was genuine but the change in
Aunt Margaret’s behaviour concerned them. Perhaps Irma
was a con-artist, taking advantage of her.
It occurred to Polly that before involving the others,
perhaps it would be better to find out in more detail what
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