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| ... Clarissa, in need
of a powder-room, ends up in a restricted area of the
building's basement, where she finds an abandoned
wheel-chair — and a scarlet uniform ... |
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Clarissa
opens another door, and then — behind a
curtain — she is suddenly confronted with
uniformed men ... a secret meeting of, as it
turns out, former Scotch Guards. The only lady
among them is Scottish as well. Clarissa knows
because she recognises her immediately from
"One Foot in the Grave", one of her
favourite TV-serials:
Actress Annette Crosbie |
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... and there
is Lance Corporal Anthony Austin, the very same
Chelsea pensioner whom Clarissa had met at the
Royal Hospital — the one who had been not
too surprised when Gertrud and Lainet had told
him about the circumstances of his comrade's
death close to the "Anchor & Hope"
along the river Lea.
Of course, he recognises her too ... |
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| ... Someone closes the door behind her
... and Clarissa finds herself in a bizarre situation ...
is she being held as sort of a prisoner by a bunch of
retired soldiers, with an old woman as accomplice who was
awarded an O.B.E. and holds, undoubtedly, the status of a
V.I.P.? ... |
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