“I was very careful to check they’re giving you something suitable. You need to take them until that chest infection clears, and they’ll do Cara no harm.”
I set the cooked food on the table. “There you go, everyone. Help yourselves.”
Everyone pulls up chairs. Michael scoops scrambled eggs onto Charlotte’s plate, then tomatoes and bacon. “We should be finishing decorating the tree today and getting up the rest of the decorations. What d’you say?”
Her answering smile is broad and bright. “I’d love that.”
Beth taps a long nail on the table. “Charlotte, will you show me how you make those little paper birds.”
“Course I will. I’ll just need some glossy magazines, something with lots of colour.”
“Plenty of those in the hotel,” says Michael. “I’ll see what’s out of date in Reception…” He tr
