Fanny McBride by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780360614
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

For a moment Margaret leaned against Fanny’s comforting flesh, then groping for a handkerchief, she dried her eyes quickly, exclaiming, ‘It’s nothing, I just felt like that for a moment.’

‘Now look, lass.’ Fanny nodded her head. ‘I’ve seen a bit in me time, and I know you’re carrying more than your share. You can tell me and it’ll go no further, and it’ll ease you. Tellin’ always eases you. Every time I go to Father Owen I say thank God to him who invented confession. Anyway, lass, I’ve drawn me own conclusions already.’

Now Margaret looked up at her, her eyes steady, and she asked, ‘Have you?’

‘Aye.’

‘They won’t be right, Mrs McBride.’

‘You seem sure of that, lass.’

‘Yes…yes, I am sure, and I wish I wasn’t, but if I could tell anyone in the world I would tell you…do you believe that?’ She put out her hand to Fanny, and Fanny took it between her two bloated ones, saying, ‘Well, I’m always here, bear that in mind, lass. But there’s one thing I’m goin’ to ask you outright.’ She brought her chin into the rolls of fat in her neck as she said, ‘Do you like my lad?’

On this question Margaret withdrew her hands and her colour slowly mounted and her eyes moved away from Fanny as she answered with a semblance of Marian’s primness, ‘Yes…he’s very nice.’

Fanny sighed impatiently. ‘That’s not the answer. And you must forget how he went off just now…we…we’d been having a few words.’

Turning quickly towards the door and with her back now to Fanny, Margaret said, ‘I can’t give you any other answer.’

‘No?’ Fanny gave a small laugh. ‘Well, that’ll do to go on with. I’ll just bank me fire down and then I’ll be up. Go on and get yourself ready.’

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