Kate Hannigan's Girl by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cookson, saga, Fiction, Romance, historic, social history, womens general fiction
ISBN: 9781780360294
Publisher: Peach Publishing
Published: 2011-03-23T13:00:00+00:00

Rosie, with her back towards Annie, answered, ‘Michael’s calling for me; he’s asked me to go to the pictures.’

Annie sprang up and swung her about: ‘Oh, Rosie, I’m glad! I knew he was struck on you.’

‘Did you?’ asked Rosie, her chubby face looking almost pretty in her happiness. ‘He’s taking me to Newcastle. I’d just as soon go to Shields, for I know he can’t afford it . . . they don’t get a wage, do they, when they’re articled?’

‘No, but his father doesn’t see him short.’

‘Do you think I look a lot older than him?’ Rosie asked, her small, bright eyes looking fixedly at Annie.

Annie sensed the appeal for negation, and immediately replied, ‘No, of course not.’

‘But I’m two years older.’

‘Well, who’s to know that?’

‘Cathleen does, and she’ll make the most of it . . . Annie,’ she said quietly, ‘I’ve never been afraid of anyone in my life, but I’m afraid of Cathleen Davidson . . . I can’t tell you why, I only know I’m afraid of her. You know me: I could always stand up to anyone, but somehow she puts the fear of God into me. I used not to be afraid of her; it’s just lately I’ve felt like this. You know, Annie, sometimes I have the feeling that she’s going to wreck my life.’

‘Oh Rosie, that’s silly.’ Annie’s words sounded unconvincing to herself, for she already had knowledge of that feeling.

Rosie said, ‘Yes, I know it is, but I can’t help feeling it.’

‘You have your singing. She can’t touch that.’

‘No,’ said Rosie, ‘she can’t.’ She stood by the table, twisting the curly fringe of the cover around her finger. She shook her head in perplexity; she hadn’t been thinking of her singing at that moment, she had been thinking of Michael, the only boy who had ever asked to take her out, the only boy she had ever wanted to take her out. It was odd and a little frightening, but her singing had taken second place in her life since Michael had begun to show an interest.

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