CAPÍTULO 47 - NAVIDADES ADELANTADAS ---- CHAPTER 47 - AN EARLY CHRISTMAS
When the distribution was over, Claire, carrying with her the bundle of feathers that brought back such fond memories, stood up and said:
“Well, dears, it’s twenty to seven in the morning. Shall I bring you something for breakfast or is anyone going to sleep? You ought to rest, my dear, you’re exhausted,” she said to her son as she stroked his cheek tenderly.
“Better not, Mum, and I think we’re all far too excited to sleep, aren’t we?” replied John, looking around at everyone.
“Well then, someone come with me to the kitchen to prepare a bit of breakfast.”
“I’ll go with you, Grandma,” said Little Claire.
“And I will,” Lorraine chimed in.
While the others waited, John continued answering the countless questions everyone was asking him in a sort of cheerful interrogation. Charlotte asked him a pertinent question:
“Brother dear, did you finally read that Kipling book you told us you’d bought in Cyprus on your way out?”
“I started reading it, sister, I really did try, but…”
“But?” said Charlotte, intrigued.
“But what that man tells in that book has nothing to do with what I experienced,” was John’s final answer.
At that moment, the girls appeared carrying trays with tea, toast, preserves, and Maggie’s “special” biscuits.
Little Claire came in first with her tray. Then Lorraine followed, and lastly appeared an enormous plume of ostrich feathers that could barely fit through the drawing room door. Claire had improvised a huge headdress with the cherished gift her son had given her, tying the feathers to her head with a ribbon she had found in the kitchen.
The general burst of laughter was thunderous.
“But, Mum, you look like an Indian… but not from India—one from the Wild West!” exclaimed Charlotte, crying with laughter.
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