(1) I've heard about Mollie — I'm so sorry.

(2) Mollie gave an uneasy little titter.

(3) I've known Mollie ever since I was a little girl.

(4) Mollie told me what she'd done and I was really scared on her account.

(5) The next morning Mollie and I resumed the polishing and dusting after eating our muesli and boiled eggs.

(6) Mollie can't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues can't get over the transformation either.

(7) Mollie confesses she is rather partial to pink.

(8) Mollie in fact was missing.

(9) Mollie refused to learn any but the five letters which spelt her own name.

(10) Mollie: More than that; she looks like the cat that swallowed the canary.

(11) At some point during all the commotion, I became convinced that I she was going to die and for a split second, I imagined my life without Mollie.