Before putting them back.
"Not bad for a woman of forty-six," she smiled. "They are like me, there's no
denying that." She looked round the room for a mirror, but there wasn't one.
"These damned decorators. Poor Michael, no wonder he never uses this room.
Of course I never have photographed well."
She had an impulse to look at some of her old photographs. Michael was a
Tidy, business-like man, and her photographs were kept in large cardboard
Cases, dated and chronologically arranged. His were in other cardboard cases
In the same cupboard.
"When someone comes along ( : ) and wants to
write the story of our careers ( ) he'll
find all the material ready to his hand ( : , //
// )," he said ( ).
With the same laudable object ( :
) he had had all their press cuttings ( :
) from the very beginning ( ) pasted in a
series of large books ( : : ).
There were photographs of Julia ( ) when she was
a child ( = ), and photographs of her as a
young girl ( ), photographs of her in her first
parts ( ), photographs of her as a young married
woman ( ), with Michael (
), and then with Roger, her son, as a baby ( ,
, / / ). There was one photograph of the three of them
( , / /), Michael very manly and
incredibly handsome ( ;
handsome / /, ), herself all tenderness looking
down at Roger ( , , // ; tender
, , , ) with maternal feeling (
; to feel , , ), and Roger a little boy
with a curly head ( , ), which
had been an enormous success ( ).
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"When someone comes along and wants to write the story of our careers he'll
find all the material ready to his hand," he said.
With the same laudable object he had had all their press cuttings from the
Very beginning pasted in a series of large books.