"Jane Yolen - Briar Rose" - читать интересную книгу автора (Yolen Jane)

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They left and Becca sat listening to their footsteps fade down the
hall. She could hear the bustle of the Home outside the door: the
elevator clanking and wheezing its way down to the first floor, a
telephone ringing twice at the nurse's station before being answered
by a weary voice. A cart rattled by, accompanied by the slip-slap of
a nurse's cushioned shoes. The television announcer's cheery banter
almost covered the sound of Mrs. Benton's weeping.
Standing, Becca went to the door ' closed it, then returned to her