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Elspeth Davie, 19 February 1981
“... And I’m not really supposed to sit down at all,’ said the young man. ‘Not on this kind of a job.’ ‘What kind is it?’ asked the girl who’d been sitting for some time on a seat in the gallery watching her small son stumping around close to the wall of pictures. Now and then he bent to examine the look of his boots on the parquet pattern of the floor ... ”