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' said Mrs Tinker, doubtfully.
'Those are the Solomon in all his glory thins. The ones that toiled not neither did they spin.'
Mrs. Tinker went to church only for weddings and christenings, but she belonged to a generation that had been sent to Sunday school. She looked with a new interest at the little handful of glory encased by her woollen glove.
'Well, now. I never knew that. Makes more sense that way, don't it. I always pictured them arums. Fields and fields of arums. Awful expensive, you know, but a bit depressing. So they was colored? Well, why can't they say so? What do they have to call them lilies for!'
And they went on to talk about translation, and how misleading Holy Writ could be ('I always wondered what bread on the waters was,' Mrs. Tinker said) and the awkward moment was over.
While they were still busy with the Bible, The Midget came in with extra flower vases. Grant noticed that the vases were designed to hold white lilac and not anemones. They were a tribute to Marta; a passport to further communing. But Marta never bothered about women unless she had an immediate use for them; her tact with Mrs. Tinker had been mere savoir fairs; a conditioned reflex. So The Midget was reduced to be
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