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[00:01.46]Lesson 58
[00:03.29]A spot of bother
[00:12.00]What did the old lady find when she got home?
[00:17.98]The old lady was glad to be back at the block of flats where she lived.
[00:23.54]Her shopping had tired her and her basket had grown heavier with every step of the way home.
[00:30.57]In the lift her thoughts were on lunch and a good rest;
[00:34.98]but when she got out at her own floor,
[00:37.66]both were forgotten in her sudden discovery that her front door was open.
[00:43.41]She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence,
[00:50.74]when she remembered that she had gone shopping after the home help had left and she knew that she had turned both keys in their locks.
[01:00.57]She walked slowly into the hall and at once noticed that all the room doors were open,
[01:06.95]yet following her regular practice she had shut them before going out.
[01:12.07]Looking into the drawing room, she saw a scene of confusion over by her writing desk.
[01:18.68]It was as clear as daylight then that burglars had forced an entry during her absence.
[01:25.16]Her first impulse was to go round all the rooms looking for the thieves,
[01:30.17]but then she decided that at her age it might be more prudent to have someone with her,