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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

298 wivesbehavingbadly

.     chapter twenty - two
when i turned out the pocket of my black linen  trousers . i discovered the sprig of the plant . i had picked at claire manor  it was brittle and withered  , with only faint traces of the vivid blue  that had attracted me . intrigued  . i looked it up  in one nathan 's books . it was called nepera and  its  old nickname was rattlesmintes . so powerful was its attraction to cats that infant  seedling had to be protected against them .
 the phone rang as i  i was  reading about catmint ." if you set it , the cats will get it / it  you sow it  . the cats won't know it ."
" i know i'm not talking  to you ." said paige .
"okay , i said ." i'm not asking  you how the baby is . "
" he 's developing into a bit of a screamer ." her voice wavered ." i've never been so exhausted ." for paige to admit my thing  of the sort was serious ." three children , and i have to turn them into human beings without  turning  into a monster myself ." her voice veered up the scale ."  it's so tough that i someties wonder ."

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