CHAPTER 5 – A CHAT WITH MAUDE
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MAUDE LIVED IN ONE of the townhouses in the village situated in the north of Edinburgh. The rows of white houses lined the lower line of the forest on one side and the Almond River on the other. Each house sported three floors and each floor accommodated one flat, which made people wonder if the flats were spacious enough.
Maude’s flat was on the ground-floor with a view to the river. The old woman had been living there for decades. She felt comfortable in her two- bedroom and small kitchen flat. She was happy to have enough room to receive guests now and then. She didn’t yearn for more. A larger flat would have been an inconvenience. There were days when she found it difficult to clean the entire house, as it was.
She now had a visitor she had ne
