A Girl Can Dream by Anne Bennett

Author:Anne Bennett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780750540551
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2015-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

When Meg opened her eyes the next morning, she was disorientated for a moment, and then she realised where she was, sat up in bed and pulled the curtain.

‘Oh wow!’

‘Wassup?’ Joy asked sleepily.

‘There’s water everywhere,’ Meg said. ‘Don’t mean a bit of water, like, but lots. I mean, there’s no fields, just a proper sea of water.’

Joy joined Meg at the window. ‘Look,’ she said. ‘It’s the same everywhere, as far as the eye can see. Blimey, even in the yard the water is more than halfway up Will’s boots.’

They watched as he ploughed his way across to the barn to let the dogs out, and when they jumped into the swirling water their legs almost disappeared. ‘Will must be going for the cows,’ Meg said. ‘If they have been stood in water all night, that won’t have done them any good.’

‘No,’ Joy agreed. ‘And the cowshed might be waterlogged as well.’

‘Everywhere will be, I’d say,’ Meg said, getting out of bed. ‘Good job they have those two steep steps to get into the house, or the water might have got in here as well.’

‘Where are you going?’ Joy asked as Meg struggled to her feet and wrapped the blanket back round herself.

‘To see if I can help.’

‘You’ll be as good as useless without wellingtons.’

‘Maybe they have spare ones,’ Meg said. ‘Stephen must have used boots. Maybe they kept the ones he grew out of. I mean, wellington boots don’t have to fit like shoes. I used to keep a pair of wellies for about three years, stuffed the toes with old socks that were past darning, and I didn’t get a new pair till they were small enough for the next one down. Anyway, I won’t know till I ask. Come on, this is our chance to get our uniforms on while Will’s out of the way.’

Enid was downstairs and was surprised to see them up. ‘Thought you’d still be tired,’ she said, pouring them each a very welcome cup of tea. ‘You looked done in last night.’

‘We were tired,’ Joy said. ‘But that was yesterday. We’re young and fit and we bounce back.’

‘We’d like to help,’ Meg added. ‘But we have no wellies.’

‘No wellies,’ Enid said. ‘I’d say they were essential for farm work.’

‘They might well be part of the uniform,’ Joy said. ‘They just gave us the basics to get us here as quickly as possible. I mean, Rita knew there was going to be a storm, but I shouldn’t have thought she had any idea it was going to be as fierce as it was.’

‘No one expected that,’ Enid said. ‘I have never experienced such a storm. The man on the wireless said this morning that Staffordshire was the worst hit.’

‘You have a wireless?’ Joy asked in surprise.

‘Yes, there it is on alcove by the chimney breast,’ Enid said.

‘Fancy us not noticing that yesterday,’ Meg smiled as she struggled into her crumpled but dry uniform.

‘We haven’t had the wireless that long,’ Enid said. ‘And we’re not really in the way of turning it on much, except for the news.

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