Two children, strangers, wait in a house in Paris: Leopold for his mother, whom he has never seen, and Henrietta for a train. Upstairs an old woman lies dying and her daughter flutters round her. The author exposes the apprehensions of the children and the reasons for their presence in the house.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
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