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depressed about it is what I mean that having Chin with
me has really been a help.
But, of course, it's just for a few days."
Ramona was annoyed to find herself so thoroughly
uninformed about her town. Obviously, she snorted to
herself, she'd been out of touch the last ten years or so.
And now! Folks trying to murder cats and each other,
war refugees with bruised faces, children drowning,
Beanie and Winslow quitting after thirty years,
government compounds, Otto's theory that something,
who knew what, was wrong with the very air or water
or whatever. She was losing control of Dingley Falls.
Perhaps while she sat crippled in her father's mansion,
her birthplace, her namesake, her town had gone as
mad as the rest of the world. "Hideous to think of," she
said aloud.
"Yes, isn't it? I feel so sorry for her."
"What's she doing here, Pru?"
"She came here after the war," said Miss Lattice, as
though that were an explanation. "Now we simply don't
have any idea what's going to happen. Mrs. Haig (you
know, at the post office), really a very nice woman, I'd