Strange Tales: Prudence Wentworthy....

......Prudence Wentworthy was very popular, and had always been so. In the Blaine Academy For Young Ladies, she had been the captain of both the girls' rugby team and the polo league and graduated as the salutatorian. Later, she was the star at Barnard with gaggles of friends, gentlemen callers, and admirers from both Columbia and Cornell.... Interestingly, she never married, and was never really linked to any particular fiancé... but when she took up gardening at her remote estate in the Hamptons, the rumors began. At first it was her strange experiments with hybrid bulbs and perennials....crossing daffodils and chrysanthemums...during thunderstorms in a laboratory attached to her enormous greenhouse. And at society luncheons with other girls from the Iris Club, she would have two or three martinis, shaken and extra dry, with a splash of Miracle-Gro, and six olives! The final straw was the night her prize-winning phalaenopsis attacked the newspaper boy, wandered off the property, and went on a shoplifting rampage through town, targeting scented candle and high-end-soap shops. When the police closed in and shot her orchid and the fine Wedgwood jardiniere it was traveling in, Prudence became unhinged. She staggered off, inconsolable, and was discovered later pruning the entire inventory of the Hung Lo Silk Flower Palace in Amagansett......she was singing “A Tisket, A Tasket” in her pleasing alto. The police gazette referred to her forever after as "Prudence The Pruner".... 

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