The Secrets of Marlion's Life

The girls consoled her, nana wasn't half so pretty or nice as she was. They were all three looking with different eyes already at the bungalow that had been the shape of their family life so far and seemed shabbier and sadder on the eve of parting. A woman and a man purporting to be marline's sister and her cousin came down from great yarmouth in an apparently squeezed into a bubble car. It wasn't easy to believe in their connection to marline who cared about appearances and wanted everything to be lovely. Charlotte overheard the sister say, as they departed, marline had poured tea in the best bage and pea green china