“You were there to say ‘what a lovely suggestion!’ to anything that Sadie came up with,” said Meadow with a grin.
“Something like that. And Sadie was absolutely right. Hawkins became a lot more animated than he was when we were dropping the food off,” said Beatrice.
“He would have to be more animated. Any less animated and he’d have been an inanimate object. A piece of furniture, or something,” said Meadow. “What did he say about Sadie’s suggestions?”
“Oh, he didn’t like them. He thought that their father would have wanted more of a modern service,” said Beatrice.
Meadow snorted. “As if! The man was as traditional as they come.”
“Exactly. It was ridiculous. But then Hawkins kind of admitted that the service was more ‘for the living’ and he would be more comfortable with less of an ‘as
