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Uncle Andrew sat down and said,“Well,I’ll tell you all about it.Have you ever heard of old Mrs. Lefay ?”
“Wasn’t she a great-aunt or something ?”said Digory.
“Not exactly,”said Uncle Andrew.“She was my godmother. That’s her,there,on the wall.”
Digory looked and saw a faded photograph:it showed the face of an old woman in a bonnet.And he could now remember that he had once seen a photo of the same face in an old drawer, at home,in the country.He had asked his Mother who it was and Mother had not seemed to want to talk about the subject much.It was not at all a nice face,Digory thought,though of course with those early photographs one could never really tell.
“Was there-wasn’t there-something wrong about her,Uncle Andrew ?”he said.
“Well,”said Uncle Andrew with a chuckle,“it depends what you call wrong.People are so narrow-minded.She certainly got very queer in later life.Did very unwise things.That was why they shut her up.”
“In an asylum,do you mean ?”
“Oh no,no,no,”said Uncle Andrew in a shocked voice. “Nothing of that sort.Only in prison.”
“I say !”said Digory.“What had she done ?”
“Ah,poor woman,”said Uncle Andrew.“She had been very unwise.There were a good many different things.We needn’t go into all that.She was always very kind to me.”