This is a B2 story in the genre of mystery or thriller. It's called Drawing Conclusions, which is one of the expressions I explain before I start the story.

B2 phrases:
- drawing conclusions
- Mrs Robinson had neither seen nor heard Lorna since
- take great pride in sth
- to go into more detail
- he couldn’t look her in the eye
- was very absorbed in everything
- as far as she knew,
- ideas had crossed Mrs Robinson’s mind
- gossip
- the trouble with
- was on the point of
- it’s common knowledge
- sooner or later

Important words:
- greenhouse (a glass house in a garden, where you keep flowers)
- boot (the back of a car, where you put suitcases etc.)
- to split up (to separate from your partner, husband or wife)

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Mike Bilbrough (Secondary school English teacher and...