Question

How did the author recognise that the woman who was at the door was mrs dorling?

Answer 1

The narrator came to know this because from the moment Mrs Dorling opened her door, the narrator saw that she was wearing her mother’s old cardigan . When she came to check on the house later, Mrs Dorlings daughter opened the door and from the hallway to the sitting room everything that once belonged to her mother was kept either as a decor piece or was used, even their slightly burned tablecloth was used. That is how she came to know that she was at the right place.

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