Washing Day

It is a beautiful day in early summer with a light fresh wind across the meadows and the grasses. A young woman carries a basket of laundry into the garden and begins to put white things on the washing line where it flutters merrily, soaking up the sunshine and the fresh air.

As she hangs up a very large, fresh smelling, beautifully clean and bright white bed sheet, she laughs and says to herself, "You'd never know! If only it could talk ..."