007: Miss Marple: Gen
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vocab_drabblesTitle: Eschew
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 400
Characters: Miss Marple & Dolly Bantry
Summary: Miss Marple & Dolly make a connection between an old conversation and a new finding.
Dolly Bantry and Jane Marple had been friends for a very long time, and when you have been friends for a very long time, allowances can be made.
“Jane, we have been friends for a very long time.”
Miss Marple inclined her head in the affirmative and waited for the request that was certain to follow such a statement.
“Please, do me a favour and switch the place cards?” said Dolly as sotto voce as her stentorian nature allowed. “I cannot sit next to Edith Worpleston for an entire meal. She will say over and over ‘I never eat flesh!’ in that way of hers, and if will put me right off my beefsteak, and I am told they do a nice beefsteak here.” Dolly frowned and shot a pleading look at her friend.
Miss Marple was not so easily put off a beefsteak, but if it had been a partridge which they did well here, well, that would be another matter.
“Why can’t you do it yourself, Dolly?”
“Jane, is there anyone who is less able to manage ‘surreptitious’ than me?”
Dolly Bantry and Jane Marple had been friends for a very long time, and Jane knew her friend’s statement for the truth it was.
If Edith Worpleston eschewed the ‘flesh,’ as she called it, then Miss Marple would aid her friend in eschewing Edith Worpleston, and nobody ever noticed Miss Marple so she could swap the place cards with ease.
Dolly Bantry and Jane Marple had been friend for a very long time.
That is why, two years later, when they were seated in the theatre in London and they heard the actor proclaim, “I never eat flesh!” they looked immediately at one another, and then at the stage.
And remembered.
Dolly Bantry leaned forward, and Miss Marple adjusted her spectacles.
After a moment, Dolly whispered, “Jane, that fellow is the spitting image of Edith Worpleston!”
“The Edith Worpleston who was murdered and who everyone believed to have been childless,” agreed Miss Marple. “We must find a telephone box. I know the number of Scotland Yard.”
Dolly giggled. “I bet you do. Shall we wait for intermission or make a scene and exit immediately?”
“I don’t want him to get away. Thank goodness we’re on an aisle. Make a scene, Dolly. You do it so much better than I.”
“Here we go. Coughing fit in three, two, one…”
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Gen
Length: 400
Characters: Miss Marple & Dolly Bantry
Summary: Miss Marple & Dolly make a connection between an old conversation and a new finding.
Dolly Bantry and Jane Marple had been friends for a very long time, and when you have been friends for a very long time, allowances can be made.
“Jane, we have been friends for a very long time.”
Miss Marple inclined her head in the affirmative and waited for the request that was certain to follow such a statement.
“Please, do me a favour and switch the place cards?” said Dolly as sotto voce as her stentorian nature allowed. “I cannot sit next to Edith Worpleston for an entire meal. She will say over and over ‘I never eat flesh!’ in that way of hers, and if will put me right off my beefsteak, and I am told they do a nice beefsteak here.” Dolly frowned and shot a pleading look at her friend.
Miss Marple was not so easily put off a beefsteak, but if it had been a partridge which they did well here, well, that would be another matter.
“Why can’t you do it yourself, Dolly?”
“Jane, is there anyone who is less able to manage ‘surreptitious’ than me?”
Dolly Bantry and Jane Marple had been friends for a very long time, and Jane knew her friend’s statement for the truth it was.
If Edith Worpleston eschewed the ‘flesh,’ as she called it, then Miss Marple would aid her friend in eschewing Edith Worpleston, and nobody ever noticed Miss Marple so she could swap the place cards with ease.
Dolly Bantry and Jane Marple had been friend for a very long time.
That is why, two years later, when they were seated in the theatre in London and they heard the actor proclaim, “I never eat flesh!” they looked immediately at one another, and then at the stage.
And remembered.
Dolly Bantry leaned forward, and Miss Marple adjusted her spectacles.
After a moment, Dolly whispered, “Jane, that fellow is the spitting image of Edith Worpleston!”
“The Edith Worpleston who was murdered and who everyone believed to have been childless,” agreed Miss Marple. “We must find a telephone box. I know the number of Scotland Yard.”
Dolly giggled. “I bet you do. Shall we wait for intermission or make a scene and exit immediately?”
“I don’t want him to get away. Thank goodness we’re on an aisle. Make a scene, Dolly. You do it so much better than I.”
“Here we go. Coughing fit in three, two, one…”
