44 Scotland Street: Catching up

The day ahead promised to be busy. Domenica had correspondence to deal with and, after that, she had arranged to meet her old friend, Dilly Emslie, for coffee at Glass & Thompson, on Dundas Street. That would take her until twelve, when she would return to Scotland Street to prepare a light lunch for Creative Scotland’s visiting delegation of pygmies from the forests of Ruanda. Domenica had hoped that Angus would help her to entertain these visitors, but he had asked to be excused on the grounds that his time with his sitter was limited and he needed to make as much progress with the portrait as possible.