(10/13) Friends at Thrush Green by Read Miss

Author:Read, Miss [Read, Miss]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Literary, Westerns
ISBN: 9780618238880
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1990-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Harold Shoosmith's blunt assessment of Margaret Lester's condition had shocked his wife. Isobel had not said a great deal about it, but naturally it was very much in her mind. Did the two little girls have any inkling? What misery it must be for her husband! Was that, she wondered, why the family had moved, so that Alan could keep a closer eye on Margaret?

At breakfast the next morning Isobel said to Harold, 'Surely Margaret couldn't be drunk so early in the morning? I can't believe it, you know.'

'Habitual drinkers,' replied Harold, reaching for the marmalade, 'are pretty well sozzled all the time. We had a fair number in Africa. No a lot you can do for them.'

'But we must do something,' protested Isobel. 'Can't we help?'

'We can help her best by keeping quiet about it, and being at hand if Alan and the children want some first-hand support,' said Harold.

At that moment, Willie Marchant arrived with the letters, and Harold and Isobel examined their post.

'A lovely card from Agnes and Dorothy,' said Isobel. 'What a stupendous Welsh waterfall!'

'Where is it?' asked Harold.

Isobel studied the card more closely. 'It's a place with a long name, which has no vowels in it, beginning with two LLs,' she said.

'You surprise me,' said Harold.

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