Morning+Activities+in+Chipping+Cleghorn+(Continued)

 Chapter 13: Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn (Continued)
 * Miss Marple is walking through town with a purpose, which isn’t revealed to the reader at first, but she soon enters the “Bluebird Tea Room and Café” which is owned by “…Mr. Elliot, an elderly obese spider,” not a very flattering man (116).
 * Upon entering, Miss Marple is noticed by Dora Bunner who is sitting alone, and is prompted to join her.
 * After a bit of small talk about physical ailments, the two ladies order cakes and coffee from “A sulky-looking girl in a pink overall with a flight of birds down the front” (117).
 * Miss Marple strategically gets information out of Miss Bunner about Philipa Haymes, and Edward Swettenham, making the conversation simply seem like small talk.
 * After their coffee arrives, Marple attempts to talk about Miss Bunner’s relationship with Miss Blacklock, but ends up listening to a drawn out sob story thorough which Miss Marple can draw many facts about Bunner’s life.
 * Miss Bunner does mention one specific idea of interest, in her emotional babbling, Bunner mentions that “’You and I, Miss Marple, know the world. Dear Miss Blacklock-‘ she shook her head,” this quote shows how Bunner has been exposed to the ugly side of society, and fears for Miss Blacklock because she doesn’t know what it’s like on the other side (120).
 * After this story, Miss Bunner makes a strange request of Miss Marple, “Miss Bunner leaned forward suddenly with a mysterious air. ‘You won’t breathe a word, will you, my dear?’ She demanded.” Bunner doesn’t want Blacklock to know she has been thinking so hard on the subject (121).
 * Mrs. Blacklock arrives and leaves with Bunner, but before this, Bunner recalls overhearing a curious conversation between Patrick and Julia, possibly relating to the crime.
 * When Bunner leaves, Bunch Harmon sits down with Miss Marple. The two make small talk while they wait for Bunch’s coffee to arrive, mostly talking about how “’people are really very alike, everywhere,’” brought up by Marple (123).
 * Marple then brings up multiple murder examples from the past, and discusses the motives and people behind each one.
 * Eventually the conversation turns to what seems to be Miss Marple’s biggest concern for the time, Pip and Emma. Marple, however, isn’t revealing anything for sure yet, as she answers Bunch’s question on what she thinks about these ideas with, “’No, I don’t. I don’t indeed, dear. I just think that there’s a great deal of money at stake, a great deal of money. And I’m afraid I know only too well the really terrible things that people will do to lay their hands on a lot of money” (127).
 * The chapter ends with Bunch referring to Miss Marple as Aunt Jane, and assuring Marple that she would “’…never kill anybody’” (128).

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