I could never do that to a person. Mrs. Shinnick said that a lot of people did not know that she and Diana Cooper were sisters. I carried her around when she was a little baby. She was my right hand. As a symbolic gesture of her love for Diana, Mrs. Shinnick keeps the cup that Diana always used when she came over.
Nobody uses that cup anymore.
But this January 12, on what would have been Diana Cooper s 55th birthday, Mrs. Shinnick did take down the cup, washed it, and used it to make a toast to her sister. It was just me and her there. Nobody was around. The two sisters also made a plan for the latter stages of life, Mrs. Shinnick said. Now, I guess, I will have to do it on my own.