The Little Girls' Death and Its Importance

Charlotte made tea for them all, stirring two teaspoons of sugar and a not extravagant dollop of whisky into each mug. The sisters felt a hostility to this uncle that wasn't rational, but was based on their sessions in his terrible chair. They ate a lot of biscuits, and charlotte made them toast under the grill with its real flames. Later, their uncle, chard, the dentist, turned up to make sure they were all right. His brother's death was an embarrassment, brash and scene stealing, he thought,. like everything philip had ever done.