mews

Chandler Investments Limited claimed the embassy left a rented Wellington mews house without covering cleaning and other costs.

"Now, doesn't that look normal?" she mews to the studio audience as the camera zooms in on her creation.

Raspy grunts, high-pitched mews, guttural barks and the occasional roar bellowed toward my group of hikers at Año Nuevo State Park, a remote strip of coastal bluffs about 60 miles south of San Francisco.

It is one of four properties they are believed to own, including a four-bedroom mews house in London, where the couple have lived with their two daughters.

What I did not expect was Strout’s disarming warble of a laugh, which filled the Friedrich Agency’s book-lined mews house on the Upper West Side and triggered a dimple on her right cheek.