160 - backdated to the 31st

[mrs_persson]

[Private to everyone she got a gift from, minus O'Brien. Written.]
Thank you for-well, let's call them the Hogmanay gifts, since that's when they were seen fit to be delivered.

[Private to O'Brien. Video. The camera switches on to reveal an old music box with a pair of dancing figures on top: a Harlequin and Columbine pair. Una's hand appears

Comments

Re: private

[mrs_persson]

[Smirk.]

Yes, well ... it does, doesn't it? More to the point, I wondered how you thought to ask-

Be that as it may. I don't ... I think it was after the war. First or second Christmas after.

Re: private

[mrs_persson]

My mother. [There's the slightest upward inflection on the end there, though. As if she's asking herself.]

...No. Just as you did, I made an abstract sort of request and let the compiler of the file do the rest.