Five: The Lovely Mrs. Schmitt
Miss Margot sat in the parlor and thought about how as time had passed a clear and apparent divide had developed between her two vastly different worlds the one within her home and the one without. The difficult part had been partitioning the two to keep them separate which on that day became impossible when Mrs. Schmitt a short, over excited fat woman with puffy red cheeks, and fluffy grayish hair decided to visit and collide her worlds. She was a distant third cousin on her father's side of the family and nice enough Miss Margot supposed. Nevertheless, despite the relation she could not be trusted. Her cousin was the sort that loved juicy gossip and gobbled up every delectable detail, stuffing it away, savoring…show more content… Schmitt had left the children continued to eavesdrop and heard Miss Margot tell Miss Muller, "that woman is the most ignorant human being that I have ever met in my life. She insisted on repeatedly insulting my intelligence with her unfounded idiotic blab! How dare she waste my time spouting those malicious lies? I'm only glad that she doesn't visit very often. Because I am afraid if she did, God forgive me ... I'm sorry Miss Muller. Please excuse me, I need to go and reclaim my composure." Miss Muller smiled warily and let out a brittle laugh, "I completely understand I feel the same way. The horrible things that came out of that woman's mouth were repulsive. Please take all the time that you need…show more content… Together on the broken chair, they gazed down at the surreal scene for a moment and watched the procession slowly parade by and disappear around the corner and out of sight. Engulfed with grief they staggered over to the mattress and Willy wrapped his tiny arm around his sister's shoulder. They sat tightly huddled together and wept softly for a long time. Until Anna wiped at her face and glanced tenderly over into her brother's sad blue eyes that were the color of the sea. And then with all the composure that she could muster, she whispered, "Don't worry Willy everything will be all
