The Silent Lady

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The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, & she seemed unable to speak. When she asked to see the firm's senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door
- but when Mr Armstrong learned the name of his visitor, all the office staff were amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, & her emergence from obscurity was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years. What Irene
- the silent lady of the title
- had been doing, & where she had been, gradually emerged over the following weeks as Armstrong met the unlikely benefactors who had befriended her & helped her to build a useful & satisfying life in a sheltered environment. Now, at last, she was able to confront her tortured & violent past & find great happiness & contentment with the help of old friends & some newer ones.