<p>Chapter<br />
Mrs. ]ugson, according to her own diagnosis, was an<br />
opossum, pure and simple. The reason was not that she<br />
like eo le but that she did not sufficiently hate any<br />
didnt P P ,, _t k.A o a cat it is unseemly<br />
of them. "I suppose, sn~ ~ t<br />
to walk to the grave barefooted and hatless and uncon-<br />
cerned. Better in sabots and a turban and a turmoil. But I<br />
am not concerned." When people knocked at Mrs. ]ugson s<br />
door and asked if she were at home, she would answer no,<br />
she was not at home. They went away wondering if Mrs.<br />
]ugson sat with a bottle beside her, rolling her eyes at the<br />
ceiling. Although she often did sit with a bottle beside her,<br />
rolling her eyes at the ceiling, there came a day when the<br />
ceiling rolled away from her and she noticed that the big<br />
top now was vast and blue. To the north it swung up over<br />
the glistening Alps, to the south it swept down to the deeper<br />
blue of the Mediterranean. The air was soft, the countryside<br />
riotous with flowers. The sweet scent of mimosa worried her<br />
and she kept trotting around in circles, in a huff or a funk.<br />
The pain in her chest, despite its dreary physio-illogical<br />
name, had a fancy accompaniment--as though the heart<br />
could also be inhabited by a conclave of leprechauns dancing<br />
in daisy chains. Loneliness? It could not be loneliness. Mrs.<br />
]ugson had been a recluse for twenty-odd years and had<br />
never known herself to be lonely, even when she was mar-<br />
ried. Could it be spring fever? But what a mournful afflic-<br />
tion for one of her age! Nevertheless she croaked in tune to<br />
the bells on her toes, 1<br />
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