A Daughter's Choice by Cathy Sharp

Author:Cathy Sharp [Sharp, Cathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

Eight

‘He’s lovely, Kathy,’ Bridget said as she stopped to look in the pram at Mickey. ‘And you keep him so beautifully, too.’

‘It’s Billy,’ I said and chuckled as I bent to tuck the new lace covers about my sleeping child. ‘He’s always coming home with something for one of us these days. And if I spent all the money he tells me to, Mickey would never get through all the toys and clothes.’

‘Yes, I’ve noticed your Billy is doing well these days,’ Bridget said. ‘He must work all hours to be able to buy the things he does for you – these prams cost a fortune in the big stores up west. It’s new, isn’t it?’

‘I saw one advertised second-hand and I asked Billy if we could afford it. He came home with this – said he wasn’t going to put his son in someone else’s cast-offs.’

‘Yes, I thought it looked new.’ Bridget looked thoughtful. ‘I’m so pleased everything is going well for you, Kathy. You seemed a bit down before the baby came, but you’re certainly blooming now.’

‘I feel marvellous,’ I told her. ‘Billy is so good to me these days – and all my friends have sent presents. Billy asked Tom to be Mickey’s godfather, you know. He wrote and said he wouldn’t be able to come but he sent us a silver teething ring. It’s a lovely thing, Bridget, and must have been very expensive.’

‘Well, he did bring Mickey into the world,’ Bridget said. ‘I would be surprised if he’d said he would come to the christening, because he’s so busy and he seems to spend most of his time abroad these days. He’s had offers of good jobs here in London at three of the big hospitals, but he says he likes being in France, though he pops back every now and then. He went down to Bournemouth and took Amy out to lunch on her birthday. Fancy, all that way just for lunch.’

‘He came right from France to take her out? But I suppose he comes over by aeroplane. They’ve started a regular passenger service between London and Paris now, haven’t they?’

‘Tom says it’s safer than crossing the roads up west,’ Bridget said and laughed. ‘He’s a world traveller these days, Kathy. He was talking of spending some time in Italy and Spain, and they are after him in America. Apparently, he’s one of the leading experts in the treatment of burns.’

‘Yes, I know. Everyone said he was marvellous and his patients thought the world of him. The hospital where we both worked was sorry to lose him.’

‘Tom said you were good friends while you were nursing … went out together a few times.’

‘Yes, we did,’ I said, bending down to fuss with the pram covers unnecessarily. ‘Well, I had better go, Bridget. I’ve got a lot of washing and ironing to do before Billy gets home. We’re all going to Blackpool for a few days, you know. Maggie has always wanted a holiday there and Billy is going to treat his parents as well as us.

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