Chapter 5
5
I could feel the blood rush through my body, the rage building inside me as I snatched the envelopes from his hand.
‘What the hell do you think you are doing snooping around in my private papers?’
‘You told me to get Nan’s book from under the counter.’
‘I most certainly did not. I said it was under the counter. That was not an invitation. This is a bloody shop.’
‘I assumed that you meant for me to get it.’
‘You must have heard the old proverb, Dennis. The word assume makes an ass out of you and me.’
He dipped his head to one side and frowned. Clearly, he hadn’t got a clue what I was talking about.
‘The word assume obviously ,’ I explained. ‘It has the letters a, s and s and then a u an m and an e. Ass. U. Me. Get it?’
His blank expression told me that he still had no idea.
‘Oh, forget it. Clearly you are not as clever as you think you are.’
‘More’s the question, Nancy, why are all these letters sat unopened under your counter?’
‘You wouldn’t understand. Someone like you wouldn’t understand at all.’
A great big sigh escaped from him at the same time as a tear rolled down my face.
‘Try me.’
I took a big breath and just blurted it out.
‘I think I’m in a spot of trouble.’