When it happened, Miss Maimie was in her late seventies. They say when she was young, she had been pretty - and she still was - with the especially clear blue eyes that old people sometimes have, confiding and artless like a child. Hitched with twisted hair pins to the screen door of her little grey house was a home made sign which said Miss Maimie Moken - Seamstress. She wasn't a very good seamstress, but most of the women in that small town went to her for simple alterations...