THE ROBINSONS
It was the last day of August. Flora had planned to visit the museum today with Alicia. It was her last free day as she would join the bookstore from the next day. They were roaming around the museum aimlessly which was mostly empty on a weekday, except for tourists. Flora was looking for a particular plant in the botanical section said to have healing qualities, or so she had read in a journal. The plant was a native English plant, and if she found it, she would ask the curator to give her a branch. It was highly unlikely in Alicia’s opinion.
It was a museum, not a nursery, she tried telling her, but Flora turned a deaf ear.
The collection in the botanical section consisted of hundreds of native and non-native specimens as the curator was a botanist, so he kept expanding
