Edith in A Sentence

    1

    A batch of muffins burned in the process but things began to return to normal after Ryland indicated Edith was feeling better and had apologized for her actions.

    2

    A graduate of Beverly Hills High School and grandson to well-known fashion designer Edith Flagg, becoming a high-powered real estate professional simply seems to be a natural progression for him.

    3

    A half-burned candle sat in a dish on the bureau, perhaps signs of Edith's fascination with the last century.

    4

    A hundred years ago, Edith might have joined Annie, smiling her nights away at the Red Hat Saloon.

    5

    A moment's hesitation, a quick hand on the door knob, and Edith Shipton disappeared into the bedroom of her long ago lover.

    6

    Across the hall were Effie and Claire, with Edith and her son in the rear bedroom.

    7

    After Cynthia came out and administered a cold face cloth, Edith seemed somewhat better, enough to decline medical attention, though she remained disoriented even after reaching Ryland's small quarters.

    8

    All of Edith Shipton's belongings were still packed in a closet at Bird Song.

    9

    All of the guests, excepting Gladys and Edith, had vacated the inn by the time the Deans finished the morning chores.

    10

    All she was wearing was her underwear a little while later when she ran up the stairs when Edith's body was discovered.

    11

    And a smart big city detective like you didn't guess maybe this was the Edith he was talking about?

    12

    And I've confided to poor Edith a little about Annie.

    13

    Anyway, the boy is scared to death of Jerome, according to Edith.

    14

    As Dean and his young passenger neared Bird Song, Edith Shipton drove up the street, parked, and entered the inn ahead of them.

    15

    As he answered the late night call, he glanced up the staircase to see Edith in the hall above, a specter in her antique dress, a look of alarm on her face.

    16

    As he rose to answer it, he couldn't help noticing Edith Shipton's alarmed reaction to the ring.

    17

    As it tolled its final gong, Edith Shipton appeared, in her late night attire— the Annie Quincy white dress—her hair loosened about her shoulders.

    18

    As it tolled its final gong, Edith Shipton appeared, in her late night attire— the Annie Quincy white dress—her hair loosened about her shoulders.

    19

    Aside from our personal observation that he was a first class son of a bitch, everything else about him came from Edith.

    20

    At least Edith Shipton was alive before she visited Bird Song.

    21

    At least something good had come out of Edith Shipton's ill-fated stay at Bird Song.

    22

    At one time, Edith had 35 escapees in her establishment.

    23

    At the time of Edward the Confessor it was held by Queen Edith.

    24

    Because of the way Edith spoke to her coworkers, they viewed her as condescending.

    25

    Before he could answer, Edith replied, sheepishly.

    26

    Before he could respond, Edith laughed.

    27

    Before leaving, Jennifer Radisson explained that Josh had learned of Edith's new address in California—perhaps through some common friend—and had written his teenage sweetheart.

    28

    Before leaving, Jennifer Radisson explained that Josh had learned of Edith's new address in California—perhaps through some common friend—and had written his teenage sweetheart.

    29

    Besides, Edith had the pen in her possession so he lacked any opportunity to change it back to the color she used years earlier when she wrote the suicide note.

    30

    Besides, he was back in Virginia when Edith died.

    31

    Besides, I'd heard the story in general from my mother all my life—not about Paul's involvement, but Josh the randy miner and teenage Edith.

    32

    Besides, I'd heard the story in general from my mother all my life—not about Paul's involvement, but Josh the randy miner and teenage Edith.

    33

    Besides, if they buy the fact Edith Shipton is nuts, maybe they don't feel they owe her the normal concern they'd give a sane spouse.

    34

    Blaming Edith fit nicely with his plans to kill her.

    35

    Both boys were swimming and Edith was watching them, or was supposed to be.

    36

    But Edith's Annie was a minister's wife, not a common prostitute.

    37

    But we do know Edith did do some very calculated things.

    38

    By the time Dean finished shoveling, Edith Shipton was seated alone in the dining room eating her breakfast while Donnie and Fred were poring over the Annie Quincy letters and notebook in the parlor.

    39

    Conversation on the trip up was limited to Ryland's enthusiastic appraisal of his son's abilities and skiing in general, with no mention of Edith Shipton and her problems.

    40

    Corday talked to Edith for about ten minutes, then skedaddled.

    41

    Cynthia asked as Edith paused in her narration.

    42

    Cynthia directed her to the kitchen just as Edith called to them from the top of the stairs.

    43

    Cynthia gave their guest a hug and retreated down the hall to the Dean's quarters while Edith climbed the stairs.

    44

    Cynthia gently prodded the woman until Edith Shipton began to relate her story, speaking in almost a monotone.

    45

    Cynthia introduced her as Mrs. Edith Jones, drawing a slight smile but no offered hand.

    46

    Cynthia telephoned while Edith was there and I tossed her out.

    47

    Cynthia took Edith's place on the sofa and began folding the ancient underwear.

    48

    Cynthia took the opportunity to push Edith a bit further.

    49

    Cynthia was still on the phone so after Dean introduced himself he completed the paperwork, without comment or acknowledgment that he knew Ryland's relationship to Bird Song's other guest Edith Shipton and her son.

    50

    Cynthia, while not as apprehensive as Edith had been, was obviously uncomfortable watching the climbers, especially from atop their precarious positions.

    51

    Dean and Fred pretended, without success, to not have heard what Edith was saying while she blushed.

    52

    Dean answered affirmatively and smiled up at Edith Shipton, giving an all-is-well wave.

    53

    Dean caught the look on Fred's face as Edith handed the items to Claire.

    54

    Dean didn't answer but remembered Edith insisting it wasn't Dean who'd cut her husband's line.

    55

    Dean explained how Annie Quincy too had ended her life, in a carbon copy fashion, with Edith mimicking the century-old life to its final extreme.

    56

    Dean hadn't had time for a discussion with Cynthia about whether or not to tell Edith Shipton of the inquiry about her staying at Bird Song.

    57

    Dean hoped Edith would tell the old witch where to stuff it, but instead she looked as if she had just won an auction bid for a coronation gown.

    58

    Dean knew in time, he'd get over the sudden death of Edith Shipton but he also knew the fact he failed to stop her from killing herself would remain with him forever.

    59

    Dean leaped from his bed and charged up the stairs to Edith Shipton's room!

    60

    Dean let Fred follow along, list in hand, as he poked into Edith's room, which Jerome had recently shared.

    61

    Dean pulled out the photocopies of the old newspaper ads requesting information on Josh published first by Edith Plotke and later by her father.

    62

    Dean rose and began to leave the room, disgusted that Gladys Turnbull would trivialize Edith Shipton's death in fiction, even before the shattered woman was cold in the ground.

    63

    Dean thought about Claire Quincy standing on the top of the stairs, as Edith ascended, naked as the day she was born.

    64

    Dean took a deep breath, half expecting Ryland to demand that Edith leave, but there was only silence.

    65

    Dean tried to ignore Edith Shipton's body as he passed the temporary catafalque erected in his office.

    66

    Dean tried to minimize Edith's story but Fred pressed them until Cynthia related, in broad detail, all Edith had told them.

    67

    Dean wanted to question Edith further but she rose, with Effie following, her arm on Edith's elbow and the pair returned upstairs.

    68

    Dean wondered if her throat was sore after her pre-dawn glass-breaking scream upon first seeing Edith Shipton's body slowly turning from the end of the sash.

    69

    Deep down, you still don't think Edith was the one who cut the line!

    70

    Did you do any more checking on Ed and Edith Plotke— the people from the 1961 newspaper—and missing Josh the miner?

    71

    Did you do any more checking on Ed and Edith Plotke— the people from the 1961 newspaper—and missing Josh the miner?

    72

    Donnie picked up a pair of long legged drawers and held them up with a smile but Edith snatched them away and shook her finger in a mock scold.

    73

    Donnie renewed his pantomime request for Edith to try on the dress.

    74

    Donnie's entrance seemed to brighten Edith's morning as she clucked over him, cautioning him about the perils of his undertaking in a dozen different ways, all the while ignoring father Donald who'd fled from her bed the night before.

    75

    Donnie's mother Edith still hadn't returned and the boy was beginning to look worried, glancing frequently toward the door.

    76

    Earlier I considered that, but when Edith was with me, she said she tried to kill her husband.

    77

    Edith allowed herself to be led back to her seat.

    78

    Edith and I need privacy.

    79

    Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

    80

    Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

    81

    Edith began to cry, but once again wouldn't answer.

    82

    Edith began to unpile the rest of the clothes, half-slips, long drawers and top coverings that Dean assumed were forerunners of bras.

    83

    Edith claims she never got further than the road next to the bridge.

    84

    Edith closed her eyes as tears seeped down her cheeks but she wouldn't answer.

    85

    Edith cut my rope but she didn't do a very good job, did she?

    86

    Edith didn't have anything on but the white dress.

    87

    Edith didn't say a word to me when she came in, just whispered something to Donnie and was up the stairs.

    88

    Edith doesn't have a clue about life.

    89

    Edith drove off in her rental car, without a word.

    90

    Edith emerged, dressed for the great outdoors, ready to accompany her man on his macho adventures.

    91

    Edith entered, but only a step.

    92

    Edith Esch has been appointed external examiner in Applied Linguistics for Trinity College, Dublin for a period of three years.

    93

    Edith Frost is living, wonderful and irrefutable proof that even cowgirls really do get the blues.

    94

    Edith had cut the line and he fell, injuring himself.

    95

    Edith had her back to Dean so he couldn't see the look she gave Claire but she passed her haughtily and was gone.

    96

    Edith had to know about Annie's death—otherwise her carbon copy suicide is just too much of a coincidence.

    97

    Edith had to know about Annie's death—otherwise her carbon copy suicide is just too much of a coincidence.

    98

    Edith hesitated, as if embarrassed but then sat next to Cynthia Dean, adjusting the dress behind her.

    99

    Edith hesitated, as if pondering her answer.

    100

    Edith Iglaur's book Denison's Ice Road inspired a 1999 History Channel hour documentary called Ice Road Truckers.

    101

    Edith ignored him and sat back on the sofa, the dress still spread in front of her.

    102

    Edith is a very fragile woman.

    103

    Edith is a very manipulative woman.

    104

    Edith is going with us, and so is Donnie.

    105

    Edith is in the midst of making tea so ducks behind the kettle, pretending to hunt for a dropped sugar sachet.

    106

    Edith is still married to me, even if she sees fit to sleep....

    107

    Edith is, as them English novels say, 'in seclusion'—probably plotting how to wrap up Donald and take him home.

    108

    Edith is, as them English novels say, 'in seclusion'—probably plotting how to wrap up Donald and take him home.

    109

    Edith just withdrew and wouldn't even answer him.

    110

    Edith kept shaking her head 'no' as he spoke.

    111

    Edith leaned closer to him and began to run playful fingers down his bare chest, and lower.

    112

    Edith let out a sound of disgust, loud enough that clearly said she didn't care if Cynthia heard it or not.

    113

    Edith Livingstone to send claims this idea has.

    114

    Edith looked once more at her son and then picked up the garment and the comb.

    115

    Edith looked up at the ceiling once more but in a few moments there was only silence.

    116

    Edith looked up, rubbed a sleeve across her eyes to dry them, then brushed her hands down the white dress, smoothing the fabric against her legs.

    117

    Edith moved her fingers lower and he tried to turn away.

    118

    Edith passed by, dressed in civies, her beloved white dress temporarily put aside.

    119

    Edith pirouetted, as she had the last evening.

    120

    Edith said she was leaving in the morning.

    121

    Edith scrambled from the bed as Dean turned on the light.

    122

    Edith seemed confused, as if she wanted her son to accompany her but was hesitant to make a scene.

    123

    Edith seemed to slump down in her seat.

    124

    Edith Shipton appeared, as Cynthia had described, to be more nervous than a fifth-grader on speech day.

    125

    Edith Shipton commits suicide just like Annie Quincy did.

    126

    Edith Shipton gave a half smile and left.

    127

    Edith Shipton had attempted suicide once before, after her stepson drowned in her presence.

    128

    Edith Shipton had come down the stairs and was standing under the archway.

    129

    Edith Shipton is dead.

    130

    Edith Shipton looked concerned.

    131

    Edith Shipton looked up in shock, mouth agape.

    132

    Edith Shipton moved down the hall, causing Dean to think her destination was his and Cynthia's quarters but she stopped in front the small room occupied by Donald Ryland.

    133

    Edith Shipton remained unaccounted for, and unmentioned.

    134

    Edith Shipton sat nearby, long finished with her meal, oblivious to Gladys' tales.

    135

    Edith Shipton took the garment and held it against herself.

    136

    Edith Shipton was a very troubled woman, from the first time she stepped into Bird Song.

    137

    Edith Shipton was protecting the one person she truly loved, her son Donnie.

    138

    Edith Shipton was standing by the fireplace, sobbing, Ryland was ready to swing on Fitzgerald, Claire Quincy was protesting something in the corner while Effie just looked bewildered.

    139

    Edith Shipton was, first and foremost, a very manipulative and self-centered woman who had a love-hate relationship with every man she ever met.

    140

    Edith Shipton wasn't a saint either, nor do I think she was near as bewildered about life as she let on.

    141

    Edith Shipton, all abeam, took the Deans aside to tell them how thrilled she was with her son Donnie's blossoming relationship with his father.

    142

    Edith Shipton's jaw dropped and a panicked look spread across her white face.

    143

    Edith Shipton's rental car, blanketed in six inches of fresh snow, remained out front.

    144

    Edith shook her head no, much to Dean's relief.

    145

    Edith shut her eyes and Dean thought for a moment she might once again faint.

    146

    Edith smiled but shook her head.

    147

    Edith smiled, and in Dean's judgment feigned interest, but she made no further move to leave the room.

    148

    Edith sniffed once, lowered her head, and continued to eat, as if ignoring what had happened might make the pain disappear.

    149

    Edith stared straight ahead, looking as zonked as Gladys was well on her way to becoming.

    150

    Edith still hadn't spoken, but clung to Donnie's hand.

    151

    Edith stood there, neither following her son, nor making any move to enter further into the room.

    152

    Edith thought that returning to her home town would likely engender feelings of hurt and pain from her childhood.

    153

    Edith tried to close her door but Fred deftly slipped his foot in the way.

    154

    Edith was as nervous as the prior evening, glancing across the hall at her son, as if danger lurked in every corner of Bird Song.

    155

    Edith was carrying it when she came into the room but he probably didn't want to take time to search for underwear.

    156

    Edith was dressed in a sweat suit, though the descriptive name appeared to be a misnomer in her case.

    157

    Edith, Effie, Claire and Gladys remained in their rooms.

    158

    Edith, there isn't an us.

    159

    Edith, up top, in spite of what I said.

    160

    Edith, you have to leave!

    161

    Edith's death was constantly on my mind, but I never for a minute considered anything but suicide.

    162

    Edith's death wasn't murder.

    163

    Edith's in Fond du Lac touts itself as Wisconsin's leading bridal salon.

    164

    Edith's managed to slip out and meet me a half dozen times over the years, but that's it.

    165

    Even Sheriff Jake Weller was there, and the city police chief and, in various costumes of night-wear, Fred, the Quincy sisters and Gladys Turnbull who'd let out a banshee scream that woke everyone but poor Edith Shipton, who'd never wake again.

    166

    Everything about Edith Shipton was strange—her moods—her personality—the fact that she lied so easily.

    167

    Everything about Edith Shipton was strange—her moods—her personality—the fact that she lied so easily.

    168

    Everything we knew about Edith Shipton came either from her directly or through Donald Ryland.

    169

    Except I'm sensing he comes as part of a package deal with Edith and quite frankly, she scares the shit out of me.

    170

    Foolish Edith, Dean thought as he returned to his room.

    171

    For the first time since she'd arrived, Edith Shipton had a peaceful look on her face.

    172

    Fred suggested the pair speak with Edith, Ryland and the others, but Dean pointed out the difficulty in doing so while Corday continued his interviews in the parlor.

    173

    Gladys and Edith are both upstairs, the Quincys are at the library and young Donnie and his dad are still out someplace.

    174

    He claimed that he had left Ouray "for business reasons" and had no idea Edith was pregnant.

    175

    He delayed mentioning Edith's visit to his room as if that encounter deserved its own time and chapter in this bizarre scenario.

    176

    He filled Fred in on the details of Edith's visit and Cynthia's late night phone call and the abrupt end to the conversation.

    177

    He hadn't spoken to Edith Shipton since her husband's accident and felt, as the host of Bird Song, he owed the woman some sort of condolence.

    178

    He married again in 1892 Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour, who, with a son and daughter, survived him.

    179

    He married in 1878 Edith, the second daughter of Archbishop Tait, whose Life he eventually wrote (1891).

    180

    He moved closer to the center, where Edith had died.

    181

    He spoke to the sheriff at home, but, as he suspected, Weller could do nothing without Edith's referral.

    182

    He started to enter the first room, on the northwest corner, but Cynthia tugged him further down the hall until they reached Edith Shipton's room on the southeast corner.

    183

    He summarized his conversation with Edith Shipton, adding his opinion.

    184

    He thought of Edith Shipton, impregnated by a man she hated and who seemed not to have wanted an intrusive fetus invading her life.

    185

    He told Cynthia about Effie's apparition, then added, "I'm sure it was poor Edith Shipton strolling around the place."

    186

    He traced Edith's charge slip.

    187

    He treats Edith like a piece of the furniture—bangs her around too, I guess.

    188

    He treats Edith like a piece of the furniture—bangs her around too, I guess.

    189

    He was talking to Edith Shipton who was nodding and biting her fingernails, when she wasn't wringing her hands.

    190

    He woke with a start, to find Edith Shipton, with only her long blonde hair covering the body that was snuggling against him!

    191

    He'd even have a shot at Gladys' and Edith's rooms.

    192

    He's a good looking guy, wealthy, by the sound of it, and frankly, Edith isn't the catch of the day.

    193

    He's the one who told me—not Edith, even though he claims that was what she told him.

    194

    He's the one who told me—not Edith, even though he claims that was what she told him.

    195

    Her lips have been sealed for a long time, but now she's back, with with an album of covers of French pop classics by the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, and Jacques Brel.

    196

    Her sister Edith married Robert Beale, afterwards the chief of Walsingham's henchmen.

    197

    Here's where Edith's cleverness comes into play.

    198

    His ego just can't stand the fact that it was Edith who took the hike and not him.

    199

    His heart continued to race as he glanced over at Edith.

    200

    His version of the accident was entirely different from the story Ryland said Edith told him.

    201

    How can Edith be so stupid to as go back to him after all he's done to her?

    202

    How could Edith be sure which rope he'd use?

    203

    However, she said nothing in deference to Edith Shipton's son who remained engrossed with his puzzle.

    204

    I don't like this business with Edith and Donald Ryland.

    205

    I hope it was just Edith and not some malevolent spirit that scares away all the guests.

    206

    I made this here list of everyone I figured who could have done it, and Edith Shipton is right on top.

    207

    I realize in most ways Edith isn't deserving of too much sympathy, but I still think of her as a tragic figure.

    208

    I rushed up the stairs but when I arrived, Edith was stone dead.

    209

    I saw the copy Cynthia made for him in his and Edith's room.

    210

    I spent two weeks of hell thinking I was a big part of why Edith died!

    211

    I told a man on the phone, who didn't identify himself, that Edith Shipton wasn't registered at Bird Song.

    212

    I told Edith we had no future together.

    213

    I told him we didn't have an Edith Shipton registered here.

    214

    I was in that room real quick after Edith died.

    215

    I was telling Mrs. Edith about these here letters and how the two ladies from Boston will be coming to Bird Song.

    216

    I'd had a problem myself all along, not seeing Edith as being on the brink of suicide.

    217

    I'll bet he could do it too, as screwed up as Edith is right now.

    218

    I'm not sure Edith Shipton ever has enjoyed that much.

    219

    I've been a bundle of nerves since Edith Shipton first showed up on our doorstep.

    220

    If anyone knows the whereabouts of Josh, last name unknown, contact Miss Edith Plotke on 6th Street.

    221

    If Donnie didn't know that Annie hanged herself, how could Edith know?

    222

    If Edith was pregnant in 1960, her son would be in his forties now!

    223

    If Shipton did kill Edith as you say, how did he get her to leave a suicide note?

    224

    If the pen were Edith's, how, or why would Shipton have it?

    225

    If you hit your thumb with a hammer when great aunt Edith is in the room what do you say?

    226

    If you're right about what happened, there must be some consolation in knowing Edith's death had nothing to do with you.

    227

    In 1877 he became a curate in Cheltenham, where he met his wife Edith.

    228

    In 929 he married Edith, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of the English, and sister of the reigning sovereign ZEthelstan.

    229

    In my mind, that speaks of organizing, not the kind of behavior Edith Shipton has demonstrated.

    230

    Instead, he sauntered into the dining room and sat next to Edith as she halved a muffin and in tiny motions spread it with butter and marmalade.

    231

    Is the handwriting definitely Edith Shipton's?

    232

    It probably was Edith Shipton in her white dress.

    233

    It rang a second time before Dean released Edith's pinned arms and answered it.

    234

    It seems to me, that Edith had a very rapid mood change from flaunting her nakedness in front of Claire to...killing herself, practically minutes later.

    235

    It was as if Edith didn't hear a word that was said.

    236

    It was Edith who tried to kill her husband?

    237

    Jake Weller told us he had difficulty locating Shipton to inform him of Edith's death.

    238

    Jerome held Donnie's hand while his other arm was about Edith's shoulder, in a grasp that looked to Dean a tad too tight for simple affection.

    239

    Josh and my mother were involved—she was Edith Plotke.

    240

    Josh and my mother were involved—she was Edith Plotke.

    241

    Josh the cad got sweet young Edith pregnant and skipped.

    242

    Just as they had reversed their direction, Edith Shipton passed them, driving down the mountain, not speeding but too fast by Dean's conservative standards.

    243

    Just then, Edith returned to the room, holding out three crisp one hundred dollar bills, which she thrust toward Claire who reached out and snatched them, without so much as a thank-you, stuffing them in her purse.

    244

    Just then, Edith Shipton came down the stairs.

    245

    Later (in 1886) he married Edith Kermit Carow of New York City, and by this marriage had four sons and one daughter.

    246

    Letters trickled in over the years, but Edith's early assessment of Josh Mulligan as a miscreant proved to be correct.

    247

    Like Annie, and Edith, if she really was pregnant.

    248

    Look, Edith Shipton had just poured her heart out to my wife and me that she had run away from an abusive husband and was hiding.

    249

    Lord knows what Edith Shipton might say.

    250

    Marianne, a former schoolmistress, played by Edith Macarthur, is intent on leading an escape.

    251

    Maybe he didn't stop Edith Shipton from taking her own life and maybe he couldn't have done so if he'd tried, but the bottom line scrawled in bold print said he stood idly by while it happened.

    252

    Maybe she read the pages and destroyed them, or someone else took them after Edith had seen them.

    253

    Me standing there half naked, Gladys screaming her fool head off, Edith's body hanging in the middle of the room....

    254

    Miss Worthington's a big mucky-muck in the historical society, he said, for Edith Shipton's benefit.

    255

    Most of Bird Song's other guests remained, as requested, in their own rooms but Ryland hung around the kitchen, sharing a snack of take-out pizza with Donnie while Edith sat nearby, wringing her hands and looking petrified.

    256

    My guess is any place Edith ain't is where you'll find Ryland for a while.

    257

    My guess is Edith left lots of little subtle clues around her house, letting hubby know where she was going.

    258

    My guess is someone did a bit of planning for Jerome Shipton's big fall, and Edith hasn't demonstrated any real talent for long-range thinking.

    259

    Neither Gladys nor Edith emerged from their quarters.

    260

    Neither had mentioned, or even thought about Edith Shipton for the entire enjoyable afternoon.

    261

    Neither mentioned the late night phone call during Edith's nocturnal visit nor Cynthia's sudden, unannounced return.

    262

    No separate listing for Edith, but she was in the high school yearbook and graduated in 1960.

    263

    No. All it means is Edith didn't.

    264

    Now Edith was afraid.

    265

    Now that Cynthia knew, he didn't care who else found Edith Shipton in his room.

    266

    Now that Edith has left her husband, where does that put you?

    267

    On the death of Edith, the widow of Edward the Confessor, to whom it belonged, William I.

    268

    Or, perhaps he wanted access to Edith's room.

    269

    Or, sweet Edith wasn't so sweet and bashed Josh's head in and left him in the mine.

    270

    Our guest registered as Edith Jones.

    271

    Perhaps Edith transcribed the last few pages herself.

    272

    Perhaps Edith wasn't involved at all.

    273

    Perhaps it will give Edith enough time to go to the authorities and force him to stay away.

    274

    Please, just call me Edith.

    275

    Poor Edith is blind and deaf and dumb.

    276

    Queen Edith's crown had a plain circlet with, so far as can be determined, four crosses of pearls or gems on it, and a large cross patee rising from it in front, and arches of jewels or pearls terminating in a large pearl at the top. A valuation of these ancient crowns was made at the time of the Commonwealth prior to their destruction.

    277

    Queen Edith's crown was found to be only of silver-gilt, with counterfeit pearls, sapphires and other stones, FIG.

    278

    Rocking back and forth, head bowed, Edith began to touch herself, her cheek, her arms, her body, again and again, as if indicating where she had been struck but unable to utter the painful words.

    279

    Ryland raised his feet for Cynthia to clean beneath him and said, "Edith's gone back to her husband."

    280

    Ryland, twenty years old at the time, wanted to marry Edith but her irate parents forbade it.

    281

    See Edith Lyttelton, Alfred Lyttelton (London, 1917).

    282

    See Samuel Chapman Armstrong, a Biographical Study (New York, 1904), by his daughter, Edith Armstrong Talbot.

    283

    She confided it to her husband late one night, awakening him from his sleep as Edith Shipton had just awakened him but a week before.

    284

    She eventually left, to join Edith in running a small fancy drapers and general store in the front room of their house.

    285

    She registered as Mrs. Edith Jones.

    286

    She was quick enough to toss in the underthings when she sold the dress to Edith that first night.

    287

    Shipton might have begun to consider that Edith tried to kill him, but I'm inclined to believe he saw where he could use the attempt on his life to give reason for her remorse and subsequent 'suicide'. Remember, he changed his story about blaming me for his fall.

    288

    Somehow, I can't see my fiancée Franny relating very well to Edith Shipton.

    289

    Tell them that naked Edith Shipton came out of his room and moments later hanged herself.

    290

    That had to be Edith Shipton.

    291

    That ought to make Edith Shipton dead last by Dean's calculation.

    292

    That was Edith Shipton!

    293

    That's the way a left-handed person pours and Edith is the only lefty at Bird Song.

    294

    The answer seemed to please Edith Shipton and she appeared to relax.

    295

    The Deans joined the ice climbers and others in the living room for afternoon snacks and chatter just as Edith Shipton descended the stairs.

    296

    The drowning happened right there in Pinkville, Virginia, not on some far off canoeing trip, like Edith said!

    297

    The drowning in a pool could have been just as traumatic as Edith's version, especially if Donnie felt some responsibility for his stepbrother's death.

    298

    The five of us sat together at the restaurant this evening and after Edith and I went to the ladies room, we came back to find Claire livid and Mr. Shipton laughing.

    299

    The following weekend, two and a half weeks after Edith's death, Penny and Mick returned to bird Song for a couple of days of ice climbing, a further reminder of the ice park incident.

    300

    The last thing he wanted now was for the police to interview his wife so soon after she'd hung up on him as he lay in bed with the now-dead Edith Shipton.

    301

    The look on Edith's face said she was off visiting the planet Zzz.

    302

    The next opportunity proved to be the same jeep road cut off where they'd first seen Edith speaking with the man in the second car, which was now nowhere in sight.

    303

    The noise at the locked front door I heard when Edith was in my room wasn't Franny going out for a smoke as I'd assumed at the time.

    304

    The only person who can keep him away is Edith herself and it doesn't look to me as if she has the sense to do so.

    305

    The other guests were nowhere about—the children off playing hide and seek, Edith still closed in her room and Gladys dreaming of far off galaxies.

    306

    The paper didn't give a whole lot of details but the boys got in trouble and Edith saved the youngest one, Donnie.

    307

    The Scottish women's champions skipped by Edith Loudon missed out on a place on the medal podium in the Bronze medal play-off.

    308

    The sheriff talked to Edith, too.

    309

    The way I figure it, Edith took the knife the night when she first tried on the dress.

    310

    Then he added, "God knows where Edith will go after it's over."

    311

    Then she added, "Did Edith wear her white dress when she came to...your bed?"

    312

    There are a lot of questions about Edith Shipton I can't answer, but they don't make any difference.

    313

    There may be noted Durand's Marguerite de Valois et la tour de Francois Ier (1848); La Ferriere's Marguerite d'Angouleme (1891); Lotheissen's Konigin Margareta von Navarra (1885); Miss Edith Sichel's Women and Men of the French Renaissance (1901), and P. Courtault's Marguerite de Navarre (1904).

    314

    There was a hint of recognition on the man's face as he glanced over Dean's shoulder at Edith Shipton who had just emerged from the parlor.

    315

    There was a noise on the stairs and they all turned to see Edith descending.

    316

    There was no further sign of either Edith Shipton or the boy.

    317

    There was no sign of Edith.

    318

    There was still no sign of Edith.

    319

    There wasn't anybody left in Edith Shipton's life for her to turn to.

    320

    There were a dozen articles of clothing in all and Edith examined each carefully.

    321

    There's no doubt he blamed Edith for his son's death.

    322

    They all looked up as Edith Shipton tentatively entered the room, dressed in Annie Quincy's antique dress.

    323

    They emerges in 1930s America, and meet Edith Keeler, a social worker.

    324

    They took Edith along, too.

    325

    They were all gathered, either in Edith's room or nearby in the hall—Corday, Fitzgerald and a number of uniforms who seemed to come and go.

    326

    They were all gathered, either in Edith's room or nearby in the hall—Corday, Fitzgerald and a number of uniforms who seemed to come and go.

    327

    They were silent for a few moments before he asked, "If you were that close to where Shipton fell, you must have seen Edith."

    328

    They weren't in Edith's room either.

    329

    They've talked with Ryland, Gladys, Edith and even Janet.

    330

    Those crowns were the personal crowns, worn by the different kings on various state occasions, but they were all crowned before the Commonwealth with the ancient crown of St Edward, and the queens consort with that of Queen Edith.

    331

    Two unmarked State cars were parked in front of Bird Song, along with, to Dean's surprise, Edith's rental car and Donald Ryland's Explorer.

    332

    Was Edith's vivid imagination working overtime or had Jerome Shipton managed to slip by Janet O'Brien and invade his wife's room?

    333

    Was he involved with Edith Plotke?

    334

    We can speculate all day why Edith Shipton killed herself, but there's no arguing the fact that she did so.

    335

    We don't have an Edith Shipton registered here.

    336

    We only have Edith's word.

    337

    Weller said Shipton knows where Edith is staying.

    338

    What bothered Dean most was his misread of Edith Shipton.

    339

    When Dean answered it, Edith Shipton stood there, still clad in the white dress, that she now owned.

    340

    When Dean looked up to where Edith Shipton had stood, she had retreated up the stairs.

    341

    When Dean told his wife about the bearded man who seemed to be following Edith Shipton, Cynthia just shook her head.

    342

    When he did in some measure find himself again, r, he gave to the world his charming Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), and in 1865 his Household Poems. Among the latter is a poem entitled "The Children's Hour," which affords a glance into the home life of the widowed poet, who had been left with five children - two sons, Ernest and Charles, and three daughters, "Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair."

    343

    When I came back down the trail, Edith was still standing at the bridge.

    344

    When I heard someone killed Shipton, I was sure it was Edith, but the cops aren't even looking at her.

    345

    When Shipton looped the rope to descend, after he faked cutting it, Edith's cut was then positioned differently.

    346

    When the two returned to Bird Song, Donnie met Martha at the stairs and tugged her up to his and Edith's second floor room.

    347

    While Cynthia began serving breakfast, Edith Shipton emerged, looking as if she'd had little sleep.

    348

    While he wanted to avoid further involvement in Edith Shipton's troubled world, he felt proud of his wife inherent sense of compassion toward anyone in trouble.

    349

    While I'm not disagreeing with you that Edith looks like the best candidate, in my mind she's still the flavor of the month at the fruitcake sale.

    350

    While the loose ends of both Jerome Shipton's fall and Edith's suicide itched at Dean's sense of logical completion, the matter in its entirety was so repugnant to him that he didn't want to think about it.

    351

    While the on premise death of Edith Shipton remained on their minds, it was sinking to a lower level of importance.

    352

    While the others moved cautiously to the bridge, enthralled by the scene in both directions, Edith refused to budge any further.

    353

    While trying to fit in with the ancient culture and locate McCoy, Kirk falls in love with Edith.

    354

    Whoever the guy in the Blazer was, he gave Edith the look-see when he drove past Bird Song.

    355

    With Fred's help, and two of the returning guests, the group revived Edith.

    356

    You might not have liked Edith Shipton, but her death is still a tragedy.

    357

    You're being unfair to me, Edith.

    358

    You're not Annie Quincy—you're Edith Shipton.

    359

    You're not Annie Quincy—you're Edith Shipton.

    360

    You're smart enough to know that having sex wouldn't have solved any problems for Edith Shipton, and probably not stopped her from taking her own life.