Stiff Upper Lips
Inspired by John’s Message
By Maryanne Peters

Jonathan Hanscombe and Rupert Burlew had secured for themselves the two large leather armchairs by the window in the sitting room of Arthur’s in St. James. The window offered a view down the street of St. James Square (as it was then known) to the Gardens, but in the afternoon, it was the lightest area of the otherwise dark rooms of that ancient establishment.

Grace decided to pull a second shift at the hospital. The nurse she was covering for, had a family emergency. She checked on Raven and she was out of it. Her girlfriend Clair had left to go back to the hotel they were staying in to change.

Grace knew Clair was coming back to be by her girlfriend. She checks Raven's vitals and records them on the pad the hospital was using. As she is walking back to the nurses' station, she notices her partner Anthony talking to nurse Brooke. She was a light skin African American woman. She had the type of figure, Anthony looked for in a woman.

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CONSPIRACY
“Imagine Briar being prepaert to take aught any woman says to any man at face value. I really doet believe he knoewn better than that.”

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STILLBIRTHT
But for Molly and Beatrix Cattail would have lost her mind as well as her babe.

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A MISTRESS COOK WITH A POWER BASE
The seamstresses had considered the crocheting of sausages, albeit using fingers rather than a hook, to be vastly amusing.