As a rule, Mrs. Jakes only serves bread-and-cheese but she managed cold sausages as well, and some honey and cake. Neil ate his sausage with honey, which simply fascinated me — but by then almost everything was fascinating me. Cherry brandy is wonderful. But I don’t think my haze of content was all due to the cherry brandy — the glasses are so small. (I had lemonade for my thirst.) It was everything together that was so pleasant — the food out-of-doors, the sunshine, the sky through the chestnut tree, Neil being nice to me and Simon being more than nice to Rose; and, of course, the cherry
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