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Wednesday. The garden house, half past eight.
The sprinklers had already finished with the border when she carried her coffee down the lawn, so the grass held its water in the shade lines and gave it up nowhere else. Daniel had left at eight. The house behind her stood with the morning on its glass.
She let herself into the room that had been issued to her.
That was the word now. Issued. She had stood in this doorway days ago in wet socks, being given a gift. Then she had read one line in an old green book, and the gift had changed its name. Garden house cleared out and painted. Desk in. For Mrs A. A room prepared for the position, whoever was holding it. She set the coffee on the long desk, sat in the chair built for six hours of work, and took out her phone.
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