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    ‘I’d be more than happy to,’ said Bella, ‘but wouldn’t it look a bit odd if you asked if you could bring your estate agent along?’
    Mrs Langley laughed. ‘If I put it like that it would look very odd but I’d refer to you as my friend. Which you definitely are.’
    ‘You could say you needed me to assist you to the bathroom. He’d be bound to say yes then. But I think you should give him a chance first. If he arrives at the house and is instantly measuring rooms and tapping walls you could ring me, and then tell him about needing bathroom assistance.’
    Mrs Langley sighed. ‘Then he’d say I definitely need to move.’
    ‘Nonsense,’ said Bella. ‘You could have grab rails and all sorts. Your home is perfectly suitable for you if it’s where you want to live.’ She glanced at her watch. ‘I should go fairly soon. Is there anything that needs doing while I’m here?’
    Bella hadn’t actually mentioned it to Nevil, but one of the reasons she called so often on Mrs Langley was so she could do the little bits and pieces her old friend found difficult. He might not have approved, feeling she was keeping a very valuable potential client in her property longer than was right.
    ‘Well, the hose has fallen off the tap again, if you wouldn’t mind …’
    ‘Of course I don’t mind. I’ll water the greenhouse and then put the hose back on. I wish you’d let me work out a better watering system for you.’
    Mrs Langley looked anxious. ‘You know I hate change.’
    Bella smiled sympathetically. ‘But if it meant you could go on growing tomatoes longer, it would be worth it, wouldn’t it?’
    ‘I suppose so. I just wouldn’t want my nephew to think I couldn’t cope with the watering any more.’
    ‘I’ll look into it. Nothing will happen until after your nephew’s visit, I promise you.’
    ‘I must say,’ said Mrs Langley after a bit of thought, ‘if there was a way of keeping my greenhouse going that didn’t involve watering cans, I would be interested.’
    ‘Of course there is. I’ll ask around and let you know.’
    A little later, only slightly damp, Bella got into her car and set off for the station. She knew just whom to ask to sort Mrs Langley out with a watering system that involved nothing more energetic than turning on a tap.

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