Aunt Sylvia can she stay for around two months? And can she bring her cat?
My apartment is very small but of course she can bring her cat. I have a cat myself. They will be company for each other.
Philippa’s cat is very young; barely out of the kitten stage.
After two weeks she was pregnant. Not Philippa, silly. Not Aunt Sylvia; she was seventy-two. The cat! Within two months the cat had three kittens. They were so cute! One of them looked remarkably like Aunt Sylvia’s cat – which was impossible because Mephistopholes had been neutered.
One day, after several weeks, while Philippa was at school, Aunt Sylvia took the kittens to the pet shop. But the pet shop was overcrowded as were all the other places that cared for cats. Aunt Sylvia took them to the veterinarian. Vets always cost the earth.
Philippa came home from school. Oh! cried Aunt Sylvia. She was very upset. The cat must have been too young to produce enough milk. Shall we bury them in the garden and plant some flowers?
They did that, and the following week Aunt Sylvia was so relieved when Philippa’s parents came home from their trip of a life time.
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