![]() ![]() We have wine and wafers here, but this is no Holy Communion or Eucharist, that Catholic ritual which Father Flynn would have administered hundreds of times during his life. No one spoke: we all gazed at the empty fireplace. She seemed to be somewhat disappointed at my refusal and went over quietly to the sofa where she sat down behind her sister. ![]() She pressed me to take some cream crackers also but I declined because I thought I would make too much noise eating them. Then, at her sister’s bidding, she filled out the sherry into the glasses and passed them to us. She set these on the table and invited us to take a little glass of wine. I groped my way towards my usual chair in the corner while Nannie went to the sideboard and brought out a decanter of sherry and some wine-glasses. In the little room downstairs we found Eliza seated in his arm-chair in state. ![]()
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