From page 69 of my next up and coming book;
The
staggering woman now gave up staggering, in fact she gave up trying to walk at
all and just sat down where she was. My lady started rushing towards the woman,
when she reached her she asked her.
“Excuse
me, are you ill, do you need help, can I call a doctor for you?”
The
woman looked up at My Lady with her hat now crooked on her head, and began to
laugh, the sort of laugh that only a drunkard could laugh. When Alexander
reached them both he said to My Lady.
“It’s
okay My Lady don’t worry, she’s not ill, she’s just drunk is all!”
My
Lady looked at Alexander and asked.
“Drunk,
drunk how do you know she’s drunk, do you know this woman?”
“Yes
of course I do, her name is Susannah Booton, and she is nearly two hundred
years old, she used to live in the town of Birmingham England in the year 1902
when the Edwardian authorities placed her on the public house black listing
along with another thirty seven other drunkards. However she does only have a
second class ticket, and she is intruding on our first class deck, so I will
call the purser to have her escorted back to her own deck.”
My
Lady looked at Alexander then back at the actress, then back at Alexander, not
quite sure whether to believe him or not, then she said.
“But,
it’s so real, I mean she’s so real I can even smell the Gin on her breath.”
By
then that the actress had stopped laughing and replied.
“Well
I wish it was the smell of Gin on my breath, it’s not, the Gin is just splashed
on my clothes, but it works, it fools people all the time!”
“Well
you sure had me fooled and no mistake!”
My
Lady replied.
Copyright©2013
by John P. Smith
