He did not speak to any of us, but turned and helped in a bundle of red

and yellow silk comfort that proved to be Aunt Selina, also feet first.

I had a glimpse of a half-dozen heads outside, guards and reporters.

Then Jim jerked the shade down and unswathed Aunt Selina's legs so

that she could walk, offered his arm, and stalked past us and upstairs,

without a word!

None of us spoke. We turned out the lights and went upstairs and took

off our wraps and went to bed. It had been almost a fiasco.




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